This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C24B73.B24E66C0 Hope you didn't read any criticism into my message, I was just = commenting on the many different percentages that have been thrown about = in this thread. Now you have REALLY tweaked my interest: Tuning a piano in 20 mins? I = don't think I could even randomly turn all the pins in that much time. I = am, admittedly, quite slow (I have only been doing this for about 2 = years, don't have very many customers, and my ADD doesn't help me stay = focused on repetitive tasks like unison setting) but tell me, tell me = anything that might help speed things up ... My Tibetan is a little known local dialect from around the Lungmug pass = which, incidentally, is the area of the headwaters of the Mekong River = (Dza chu) and the village of Chamdo. Alan R. Barnard P.S. Freely translated, "Yabut" means "Yeah, but..." :-} ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Kevin E. Ramsey=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 9:01 PM Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes? Alan, I didn't know you spoke Tibetan..... Yabut to you too.=20 Dr. Al recommends 20% in the bass, I tried it, and it really works = for me. He is published as saying he recommends 33% percent in the = treble. I tried it on a whole bunch of pianos and piano styles and = sizes, and it has always left the treble too sharp. Notice, I didn't say = too sharp for my own personal taste, but too sharp according to his own = machine.=20 All I can tell you, is everything I try to put out here on this = list are things that I definitely have given great thought to, and done = a lot of research and experimentation on. I don't know anywhere near as = much about soundboards and piano construction as people like Del and Ron = Nossaman, I don't know as much about action geometry as Roger and many = others on this list,( although I do know a whole lot about actions and = regulating them.) But one thing I'm sure of is how to take a piano and = bring it up from "horrible" to a concert level tuning in the shortest = amount of time. I have to know how to do it, I'm one of the people in = the sixth largest city in the USA who is the one up there that's given a = little over a half hour to get the piano ready after it's sat under = blowing air conditioning for four hours. I have to know how to do it, = and what works, and what doesn't. Whew! Glad I got that one off my chest, I had to do just that in = twenty minutes last night at a concert here. Show up at 5:00, hoping to = get in early. The bands running late, and they do a sound check and = generally goof off up there as long as possible, and I finally get less = than 1/2 hour to put my "sweetest tuning" quote ( from the keyboardist) = on it. Meanwhile, the stagehands are yelling "point it left, no too = far,, the other way,, no I mean your OTHER LEFT) you get the idea. = Sorry about the rant, but I really do know what I'm talking about, = believe it or don't.=20 And in parting,,,, Batwa. <G> ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alan R. Barnard=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 7:45 AM Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes? Yabut.... Dr. Sanderson, inventor of the SAT, recommends 20% on wound strings, = 33% for the first six plain-wire unisons, then 25% to the top.=20 Since others have success with slightly different percentages, it = seems (and is interesting) that the exact percentage or location in the = piano is not all that critical a factor ...=20 Alan Barnard ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C24B73.B24E66C0 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a7/8c/66/ca/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_000C_01C24B73.B24E66C0-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 2173 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/97/50/e2/7b/attachment.gif ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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