This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Terry: Learn to do pitch raises without muting. It's fiddling with all= the mute moving that takes the time. With TuneLab Pro it is= really easy because the "spectrum display" shows a different= peak for each string so you can watch them go up individually. = I think 12 minutes is my record, but that sure beats the way I= used to do it. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:45:42 -0500 Subject: Quickie Pitch Raise In my continuing effort to not spend all day at a piano doing a= pitch raise and a tuning, I have come up with the "quickie"= pitch raise. Perhaps this is something that has been discussed before. I don't= know. But it is new to me anyway. I use it when the piano or a= section of the piano is generally less than 5 cents flat -= although I used it this morning on a little M&H (Aolean) console= (junk) that was up to 10 cents flat. What I do is this: Let's say the piano is 6 cents flat on every= string. In the bass where I would normally do a 20% overpull, I= will pull the monocords up maybe 1.5 cents sharp (just the= normal overpull), the left string of the bicords up about maybe= 8 cents sharp (bring the one string up sharp enough for both= strings), and the left string of the tricords up maybe 15 or 16= cents (enough for all three strings plus enough for the overpull= thing). By doing that, the total tension on the system is up to= A440. Therefore, when I go to tune on the next pass, I am not= making any overall pitch adjustments - I just set each string to= target pitch without concerning myself with overpull, etc. This= way the pitch raise goes very fast because you only adjust one= string - instead of three. I am not a fast tuner, but the little trashy console I did this= morning was between zero and 10 cents flat. I tuned it at the= proper pitch (and I mean it was a real good tuning where all= notes were right where I wanted them) in 75 minutes. I find that you don't really want to try this with a piano that= is more than 10 cents off pitch in any area. But for the piano= that is just a tad flat or that just has one section that is a= tad flat, this might be a quick good thing to try. Am I reinventing the wheel? Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a7/59/a9/31/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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