I used to play a few hymns from our church hymnal. Recently, I've worked up the nerve to play Liebestraume by Lizst. It's been a long time coming; and, it scared me half to death. It was wonderful. One thing, though. I have to practice every day in order to do this. JRW -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dean May Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 1:33 PM To: 'An open list for piano technicians' Subject: RE: What do you play after you've tuned the piano? Hi Joe Welcome to a wonderful profession. When I first started out I was a pretty mediocre player. I always finished the tuning by playing chromatic double octaves/chords from the bass all the way up. For example I started with the left hand on A0/A1 and the right hand with an A major chord from A2 to A/3. Then do A#, B, C, etc all the way up until you reach C8 with the right hand. In the extreme low bass leave out the third on the right hand or it will sound pretty muddy. Add it in as soon as you think it will start sounding okay, probably around the C3/C4 major chord. This simple chromatic progression will play every note on the piano, most of them multiple times and it will wow most of your customers. About 15 years ago I learned to play arpeggios. Now I play the same double octave in the bass and arpeggiate the right hand up to the seventh octave and back down. I do this chromatically until I've done every scale. This really wows the customers. I knew just a few very simple pieces of popular music when starting out 25 years ago. I still only know about a dozen. If you get 3 of these in your repertoire you will quickly master them if you play them after every tuning. They don't have to be fancy for your customers to really appreciate them and think you are a wonderful player. If you occasionally take your right hand up an octave or throw in a couple of arpeggios they will wonder why you aren't playing professionally. Blessings, Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Rosenberg Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 2:25 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: What do you play after you've tuned the piano? Hi, this is my first post. I'm a new tuner/tech. Could some of you advise what you play after you tune the piano, either for your own test on how the piano sounds, or for the customer's benefit, so that they can hear how the piano sounds? Thanks! Joe Rosenberg _______________________________________________ Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _______________________________________________ Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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