Being called out on stage, revisited

[Allen Wright]

Tom,

Very impressive, a 20 minute tuning! Just curious, though; if the  
piano was only 2c sharp, why drop the pitch that small amount  
(especially given the circumstances)? Maybe I'm misunderstanding  
something.

Allen
On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:47 AM, pianotech-request at ptg.org wrote:

> Allen
> The piano was delivered in a heavy down pour of rain and the pitch  
> was A440+ 2 cents. Although it held decently from the day before  
> all pins had to be tuned due to the raise in pitch.
> My normal routine is with a single mute only, doing unisons as I  
> go. I also keep my Accutuner going in the background as a good  
> general guide and I tweak the best position as I go.
> This was a legitimate full tuning with all pins being tuned and  
> with a slight pitch adjustment thrown in, just to make it interesting.
> Prior to this event, my best time usually was around 28 mins,  
> however I shattered that by 8 mins. I make no bones about...I'm a  
> fast tuner as I have had to do quite a bit of concert type tunings  
> on a very limited time basis.
> I'm with the 5 Browns this week. They are the 5 siblings from one  
> family who went to Julliard, and travel around with 5 Steinway C& A  
> pianos. I'm in charge of the piano prep for their S. Florida tour  
> all week. That's getting 5 pianos out of a truck (with help of  
> course), getting them set up and tuned, then getting them torn down  
> and loaded back in the truck x 5 days. That's one of the reasons  
> why I've learned to be able to tune fast and efficient.
> This is the type of world I'll live in up until Easter. Very  
> intense, very fast paced, and exhausting work for about 5 months.
> Tom





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