tuning test

[Paul T Williams]

Marshall,

There isn't a magic number.  You'll find as you gain experience that your 
tuning time will shorten and the tunings, hopefully, will increase in 
accuracy.  You may notice that many tunings will sort of plateau in 
quality and then something will "click" and the tunings will jump 
positively in quality.  Then, you may find you reach another plateau for a 
while.  This repeats itself over and over.  Once you feel that your 
temperament, octaves, unisons, etc are pretty good to your ears, have an 
RPT check your work.  Even better, have an examiner check your work.  I 
was fortunate in that my mentor was and is an examiner, so he checked my 
work every week! I think that sped my time up so that I was ready for the 
exam after a couple hundred tunings.  You may be ready before or after 
that point.  There is no set number! Keep a log of what you tune, how long 
it took, and how you think it sounds when you're finished.  I still have 
mine from 16 years ago and it's fun to see what I did.  Some of the 
memories make me "LOL out loud" as Monk says!

When you reach a plateau you don't particularly like, don't give up!  Keep 
working at it. Practice makes almost perfect :>)

Good Luck!

Paul T. Williams RPT




Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com> 
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Hi Everyone,
I was wondering.  How many pianos roughly of course has everyone here 
tuned before taking the tuning exam?  Is there a "plateau" where one 
reaches in his/her tuning career where they read a fictitious sign that 
reads, "You've tuned x amount of pianos. Now you're ready for the TUNING 
EXAM! 

Now  I know I have some time to mull over such things while I enjoy my 
training at the piano hospital, but since the tuning test came up, I 
thought I'd ask.  Have a good one.
Marshall

 

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