for those on the fence about hearing protection..

[John Formsma]

Al and Ric,
We probably have different definitions of "pounding."

There was a tuner in the area that *every* strike was about as loud as my
normal test blow (90-100 dB).  Then his test blows were even louder than his
normal, which were louder than my test blow.

It's probably all in the definition.  I'm not a pounder by my friend's
definition, or by my own definition.  I might be by yours.  And as I said
early on in this discussion, I'm always open to learning different ways of
stabilization.   (Like using a hammer shank, which I brought up a few years
back.  It works, but it's more cumbersome.)

--
JF

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:37 AM, AlliedPianoCraft <
AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  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
>
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