ETD's accurate?

[Isaac OLEG]

Hello,

I hardly can be inspired if the piano clangs and don't play a minimum
evenly.
That is why I choose to help myself a bit, and prep the piano before
tuning it.
Beside, I believe that less time is lost in the process.

But I confess that fine regulation is my favorite approach actually,
because I have to work my abilities on it.

Yet, moving a tiny bit a bedding screw because I hear the basses
knocking too hard, in front of the pianist , and asking him to
compare, gives me (and him) the feeling of being a magician !

All that because I am too far sound sensitive I confess, sometime it
is hard to have enough "distance", and I can't found my mood because I
hear too much defects from the start, I generally can't refrain myself
then.

Regards.

Isaac O.

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de David Andersen
> Envoye : dimanche 22 septembre 2002 23:56
> A : Pianotech
> Objet : Re: ETD's accurate?
>
>
> Thanks for the clarification.  I'm "intoxicated by the
> nectar" of doing
> the best job I can in the least amount of time.  Like an
> into-it surgeon,
> or carpenter, or cinematographer, or studio musician.
>
> Why do you give away the time you spend working? When I
> first sit down to
> the piano and play it and inspect it for 5 minutes, I tell
> the client, in
> person or by phone, how much it's out of tune, and what it
> needs besides
> tuning, and what I will charge for that work.  I also
> usually mention
> that after I tune the piano I'll have a much better idea of
> what the
> piano needs tonally and mechanically. By doing an accurate,
> musical,
> solid tuning that gives me pleasure, I'm inspiring myself
> to serve that
> client best in every way.  I need inspiration.  That's just me.
> It's easy to misunderstand people.  I want to stay as
> simple and black
> and white as possible.
>
> OK then.......David Andersen
>
>
> >The law of diminishing returns.  At a certain point,
> laboring over minuscule
> >differences is probably not the best use of your time or
> the customer's
> >money.  Instead, put your efforts into areas you can
> improve upon which will
> >make real differences in the customer's perception and
> enjoyment of their
> >instrument.  While you are laboring over that last .01
> cent and becoming
> >intoxicated by the nectar of creative tuning, I'm
> lubricating the action and
> >touching up the voicing.  Time, and money, better spent.
> >
> >David Love
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "David Andersen" <bigda@gte.net>
> >To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Sent: September 17, 2002 11:59 PM
> >Subject: Re: ETD's accurate?
> >
> >
> >>I read this to mean choose your battles.  Good advice, if
> you ask me.
> >>
> >>David Love
> >
> >David-----please elaborate; your meaning is not clear......thanks
> >
> >David A.
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