How long does it take to tune the average Piano?

[Stephen Airy]

How quickly do you think you could tune the piano at:
http://briefcase.yahoo.com/stephen_airy  (click on
pianostuff then 1982 badly out-of-tune piano) and
listen to the 2 recordings that are there.  When I get
a chance I might post several more, maybe later today
or this weekend.

--- Jon Page <jonpage@mediaone.net> wrote:
> At 01:56 PM 04/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Oh man, how did you manage that?
> >That would give you like 7 seconds or something on
> every string. Taking away
> >the time it takes to move the hammer and the mutes
> (~2s if you are very
> >fast) would give you 5 seconds. You didnt do any
> checkup intervalls I
> >pressume? ;)
> >
> >Is there any guiness worldrecord in tuning the
> piano?
> >
> >/Daniel Lindholm Stockholm / Sweden
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <d.l.ezell@att.net>
> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 6:08 PM
> >Subject: Re: How long does it take to tune the
> average Piano?
> >
> > >I have tuned a piano in as
> > > little as 30 minutes but as I said some pianos
> are just
> > > easier to tune.
> >
> > > Donald L. Ezell
> 
> You'd be surprised at how good a speed tuning will
> sound.  Some pianos
> won't sound any better after three hours of tuning
> as opposed to this brief 
> encounter.
> 
> There is a world record. Steve Fairchild from
> Connecticut claims this. At a 
> seminar
> he gave a demonstration of a 1/2 step pitch raise
> and tuning in 18 minutes. 
> Check
> the Guinnes Book to check his record.
> 
> Regards,
> Jon Page,   piano technician
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
> mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
> http://www.stanwoodpiano.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 


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