[pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated)

[Duaine Hechler]

The one thing that, in my last couple of tunings, I am trying to do is to concentrate on - not - going way sharp before 
honing in on the unisons. I shaved off about 10 minutes, the last couple of times.

Do most of you come up to pitch or go sharp then come back down?

I learned to go sharp then come back down, except in the high tenor, I seem to here it better coming up to pitch.

Thanks, Duaine

On 01/12/2013 04:41 PM, Mike Kurta wrote:
>     I had my wife sew two lengths together.  Voila! Now I have only one mute strip to contend with.  Length is no 
> problem, when I put it away I fold it in half length, half again, and lay it in my case. Easy.
>     Mike Kurta
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Ron Nossaman <mailto:rnossaman at cox.net>
>     *To:* pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org>
>     *Sent:* Saturday, January 12, 2013 9:45 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re: frustrated)
>
>     On 1/12/2013 8:06 AM, tunerboy3 at comcast.net <mailto:tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>     > You order it like one solid piece, something like 72" or 84" long or
>     > so, and cut to desired length or, don't cut it at all.  I ordered 6
>     > or 10 of them so I could experiment with it.  I wound up cutting one
>     > of them down the center all the way and using that one in the treble.
>
>     I cut a strip diagonally down it's length and get two tapered lengths.
>     Ideal in verticals to get around the dampers in that last section where
>     there's no room  - especially in Baldwins. A full width strip works very
>     well in the bass, or two of them if one leaks too much. Pearl River
>     passed out a terrific strip at the convention one year. Thin action
>     cloth sewed to buckskin (or Ecsaine, but it acts like buckskin). Best
>     tenor strip I've ever used in grands. I've wished I had managed to get a
>     couple more, but they were pretty protective of them and they wouldn't
>     be difficult to make when the one I have gives up the ghost.
>
>
>     >  I don't now why but string spacing tends to
>     > be a little greater in the tenor on verticals than in the treble.
>
>     Fan angles, I'd say. I use a narrow strip of thicker action cloth here.
>     Ron N
>


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Duaine Hechler
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