> From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano@gate.net> > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:41:50 -0400 > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Subject: Re: re : speedy gonzales > > List, > I remember years back going to the Little Red School House getting my first > dose of speed and accuracy. The discussion was on how long should it take to > regulate a set of dampers. Everyone gave their time estimates, some were as > high as 4 hrs. . > Then in walks in one of the factory damper regulators who does nothing else > but concert Yamaha damper regulation. 18 minutes top to bottom. Done. He was > turbo charged like nothing else I have ever witnessed. > The point in the discussion was we can either choose to pokey at a comfortable > rate and do so-so work or we can go like a bat out of hell and have to pay > extreme attention, something akin to a race car driver driving at 55 mph. vs. > 220 mph. Yamaha contends that working at an extreme fast rate yields not > only better production but with practice, better accuracy. You have to pay > more attention and not let anything clog your thinking in order to do this > correctly. However going at a snail's pace allows the mind to drift think > about other things which are not pertinent to the issues at hand. > I have never forgotten that bit of advise and I find that I have applied that > to many of the repetitive tasks. And there you have it...... The repetitive tasks are so boring and a pain in the back that the only solution is to do them as fast as possible. btw, during the concert grand course (at Yamaha) I received lessons from the concert grand damper man (maybe it was the same person?). As an instructor he was a real pain and gave me hell, but otherwise a fabulous specialist in his field. I suppose there are not many people in the world like these damper gladiators. After that I returned one more time to the concert grand department and there I saw the very same damper person (I think his name was Ono-san). He recognized me, and said smiling : "you want another lesson"? (;>)) > Tuning is high on the list for this idea. 10-15 mins. is just about all the > time one really needs to make a pitch and tension adjustment. Like many have > said on this list, it's really not a tuning as it is an adjustment. The goal > is get the pitch into the ballpark without wasting valuable time and effort. > Tom Servinsky,RPT My idea..... friendly greetings from Antares, Amsterdam, Holland "where music is, no harm can be" visit my website at : http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/
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