for those on the fence about hearing protection..

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Ric....This is what I've been shouting here. I just don't understand the necessity of pounding!

I guess it's how you learned in the first place and your natural preference.

Al Guecia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 4:10 AM
Subject: for those on the fence about hearing protection..


>I have to disagree... there simply is no such thing as a piano that 
> <<requiress>> hard pounding to get into and hold a stable tuning.  There 
> are too many tuners out there that are capable of extremely stable 
> tunings without pounding.  There may be tuners who can only tune this 
> way... and there may be tuners who cant get a stable tuning one way or 
> the other... but that by no means says anything about pianos... only the 
> tuners.
> 
> Pounding is simply not necessary.  Pound away if you find it the easiest 
> way to be sure... but in the end the <<stable tuning>> is in the wrist. 
> Pounders... at least the good ones... simply set the string by learning 
> the right combination of where to leave the pin and how much pounding to 
> bring it into place.  Non pounders... at least teh good ones of these 
> just set the string where it should be in the first place and no amount 
> of pounding will do anything positive at all.
> 
> This is a classic different strokes for different folks thingy... there 
> is no <<one way>> here.
> 
> Cheers
> RicB
> 
> 
>      
> 
>    Well said Les and I think overlooked by many, perhaps including
>    myself. I
>    tune way too many, poorly by half, regulated pianos and I still, no
>    matter
>    how poor the instrument is, must satisfy my own standards that the
>    piano is
>    tuned to the best of my ability. Sometimes that requirs a lot of
>    pounding
>    that I wouldn't do or would find needless on a better piano.
> 
>
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