Thanks very much, Ron. I've always intuitively suspected some of those things, but once had a client who complained that his previous tuner wasn't listening long enough to each unison, so I determined not to make the same "mistake." --David Nereson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] shorter final tuning time with pitch raises; forearm smash > Hi David, > From past observations rather than specific knowledge of what > you, personally, are doing, I find that tuners taking well > over an hour are all doing the same thing. They listen too > long, and tune way too deep into the tone envelope. Tuning > into the decay is a waste of time and effort, I think. Pretty > much everything you need is in the first half second of the > note. You know what you're listening for, know where to listen > for it, and know where to go with it when you hear it. That > ought to happen nearly instantly, and that's where you start > tuning. Listening beyond that is giving away time without > helping the tuning. . . . . . <<
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