freebies

[Farrell]

I have to agree with you here. This is why I often take about 35 minutes to do a one-pass pitch raise. Especially the treble and high treble notes I will "firmly and repeatedly depress the key" (pound, if you wish) until I observe no more settling of pitch. So often you can pull the note up to some pitch and with three firm strokes to the key make it settle 20 to 40 cents. I'm not saying it's the best way to do it, but I do get them stable during the pitch raise pass. Then when I do my tuning pass, any "freebies" are truely freebies, because I know they are stable (I'll give 'em another whack or two anyway).

BTW, I found a treble hammer laying in my lap the other day while pitch raising a little console............

BTW, I had a key break in the treble on an Acrosonic during a pitch raise...........

.........I'm sure it was nothing.    ;-)

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike and Jane Spalding" <mjbkspal@execpc.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: freebies


> I've been following this string with great interest, since I am looking for ways to speed up pitch corrections and 1st passes to the point where I can confidently schedule tunings at 2 hr. intervals (no, difinitely not bionic).  According to Dean and Mitch, RCT pitch raise mode works most accurately when you DON'T overpull and settle:  just pull it to pitch and move on.  Fortuitously, this also saves time.  But I have to agree 100% with Ron, on the second pass I need to handle every pin again, because too many of them will drop significantly with the slightest downward pressure of the hammer.  Case in point, Small (10 to 20 cent) pitch raise on 10-year-old Baldwin B Friday morning.  Pitch raise pass, about 30 minutes.  Second pass, none of the center strings was off more than a cent, but 90% of them settled 5 to 10 cents as soon as I touched them.  I just don't see how a "pull them up and leave them" pass can result in any "freebies".
> 
> Perhaps unrelated side note, I've noticed that on the first pass, even on non-neglected pianos, the strings sometimes settle significantly as soon as I put the hammer on the pin.  Maybe that's a result of the humidity-induced pitch changes that we enjoy here in the upper midwest?
> 
> Mike Spalding RPT
> Wisconsin
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Jonathan Finger <johann@tollidee.com>
> To: 'Pianotech' <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:41 PM
> Subject: RE: freebies
> 
> 
> > "but when a tuning hammer is put on them, they change at the slightest 
> > touch and stay there."
> > 
> > Well, as I said, I concentrate on setting the pin.  Therefore, the pin
> > doesn't move when the hammer is set on it.  I'm not just flexing the pin
> > as some do, but moving it in the wood, and furthermore, understanding
> > how and where I'm moving it.
> > 
> > " Especially after having just done a quick 
> > pitch correction over the entire piano, which is what my post is about."
> > 
> > And I was responding to your post, in regards to the first quick pitch
> > correction.
> > 
> > Best Wishes :)
> > 
> > Jonathan Finger RPT.
> > 
> > 
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