I overheard a customer talking on the phone recently, saying "i didn't realize that tuning takes so long." I had been working on her piano, at that point, for less than 25 minutes!! In fact, the whole job took about 65 minutes, from "drive up" to Drive away...and I should mention that I also did a quick Pitch raise! So i thought it would be a great time, before I left, to educate my customer just a tad. While i was packing things up, I took the opportunity to say the following: "your piano has roughly 240 pins (Not quite that many, but for easy math...as in 240 minutes= 4 hours) and because i had to tune your piano TWICE, we double that to 480. Each one of These 240 tuning pins hold string tension up to 170 lbs, and require the utmost in small, precision movements to get the piano in tune..and STAY there. If a tuner were to spend just 1 minute on each pin, (tuning twice) it would take about EIGHT HOURS to finish the job! So, in order for me to have finished TWO tunings in just over an hour, that means I spent only about 1/8th that amount of time, or about 7.5 seconds PER PIN! That includes setting the temperament AND perfecting unisons. She was duly impressed, and thanked me for taking time to explain the process. Terry Peterson Associate Member PTG Los Angeles, CA _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
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