How long does it take to tune the average Piano?

[Stephen Airy]

oops (hit post button prematurely)

if you want a pic of what the piano looked like 12
years after the recording was made it is the RCpiano1
in the pianostuff folder.

--- Roy Ulrich <ulrich@rangenet.com> wrote:
> Don't know fer sure, but I'll need at least a half
> an hour to fix the
> bench...
> 
> 
> Roy Ulrich
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Airy" <stephen_airy@yahoo.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: How long does it take to tune the
> average Piano?
> 
> 
> > 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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