A ETD can take a lot of that stress out of the work! Use your ear/brain when it's needed not before. David I. On 23 Jan 2001, at 8:59, Richard Brekne wrote: > One thing that seems to sort of saturate such advice is not directly > mentioned, but I think lies close to the root of many techs > (begginging and experienced alike) problems with this or any other > area of tuning. Frustration. Dont let it get to you. One of the nice > benifits of the three pass approach is that the first two are taken > without any real expectations or worry... you just slop it in... the > second pass of course gets evened out a bit more carefully, but you > dont stress it. > > Thats one of the big keys to all this. Dont get stressed. Find ways of > avoiding stress / frustration... and ways of beating it down when you > feel it coming on. > > Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/22/01 7:08:05 PM Central Standard Time, > > pianola@online.no (Ola Andersson) writes: > > > > > >> I got a tip from the great Dr. Jim Coleman that sometimes appear on > >> this list that help me alot. For a bad piano (wich I often get) I > >> first do a pitch raise then a rough tuning and then I start to > >> tune. This stabilise the pressure on the bridge so the treble don't > >> fool you after tuning the tenor part. Also by this time you have > >> pitch rasied the bass so not very much will happen with the > >> pressure when you tune it. This way I don't have to fight with the > >> last octave. When I feel I start to fight and move the strings to > >> much I rather do a quick rough tuning and then starts to tune > >> again. Jim Coleman said this way was faster and I've found that to > >> be true. > > > > > > > > I learned the same thing from Jim Coleman Sr RPT now 22 years ago. > > It was as true then as it is now. His partner in the lecture also > > confirmed this with the saying I always keep in mind, > > (paraphrasing), "You can tune it twice or even 3 times or more > > faster and easier than you can fight with it once". Believe it, my > > friends, it's true. Even if it's just one section such as the > > treble or high treble which is too far off, you will be able to > > finsh the job sooner and have a more stable piano by doing a rough > > tuning as quickly as possible, followed by a fine tuning than if you > > attempt to fine tune any portion of the piano which is off pitch. > > > > Bill Bremmer RPT > > Madison, Wisconsin > > > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > Bergen, Norway > mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no > > David Ilvedson, RPT
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