Message for Marshall

[pianotune05]

Hi Ed,
Thanks for the e-mail.  Fortunately, I understand how pianos can go ut of 
pitch and muting, I'm just not quick at it.  I'm sure there are techniques 
that the Emil Fries school could teach me in terms of finding pins etc.  I"m 
going out of town next week to get more hands on with an RPT who has been 
assisting me through e-mail.  I've learned tunig through another excellant 
RPT in Chicago and the Rand y Potter course I hae here as a reference.  I'm 
practicing quite a bit on hammer technique, but I just need to increase my 
speed and develope a quicker method for finding pins, or the right pins and 
muting.  Right nw, I count the pins and use both hadns as a guide, and both 
to help find the right strings to mute.  So there's lost time there.  Once 
I'm on the right pin and in the right set, I'm usually fine, but if I 
accidently move the lever, then I have to count all over again and get 
repositioned.

I have nothing agaist Emil Fries school. I think their great!  I'm just in a 
position where I cannot relocate, place bound as some call it.  If I we 
didn't have my wife's cleaning service which is our source of income a new 
baby, and financial diffiiculties, I might consider just packing up and 
heading west, or North West.  It might take a little longer, but I'm sure 
I'll discover a pattern that workds for finding the pins etc, works in 
speeding up the tuning process.  Fortunately, I do quite a bit of reading, 
gleaning from this awesome list we're on, and the constant tuning practice.

As for pitch falling, loose tuning pins, cracked bass bridges, cracks in the 
plate or sound board all can contribute.  Of course that piano being close 
to the front door of the store isn't that great for the piano either.

Well have a great day.  Write again.  Talk t oyou soon.
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ed440@mindspring.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 8:53 AM
Subject: Message for Marshall


> Dear Marshall-
>
> The impressions I get from your messages are that you can't identify the 
> causes of severe instability in a piano, or don't understand how to raise 
> pitch, and that you don't understand basic techniques for muting and 
> finding tuning pins.
>
> If you really want a career as a piano technician, I believe the most cost 
> effective path to a good income will be for you to attend the Emil Fries 
> school, which specializes in training people with sight problems.  It will 
> be worth making a great effort to attend this school.  Then you will be 
> able to begin your career knowing you know what you need to know to call 
> yourself a piano technician, and you will not worry what customers think 
> of you. You will not have to "fake it" because you will know how to do it. 
> Five years from now you will be earning more, working on good pianos, and 
> building a reputation that brings you good customers by referral.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ed Sutton
>
>
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