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

[tunerboy3 at comcast.net]

That depends entirely on the piano itself.  Some up right up to pitch and right in tune.  Others have to brought sharp a bit and dropped.  It doesn't take me long to figure out what I have to do on the piano and that's what I do.  My dad always told me that "you have to let the piano know who's boss.   You control it.  It, does not, control you."  There is a lot of truth to that.

Jerry Groot RPT
www.grootpiano.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Duaine Hechler
To: pianotech
Sent: 2013-01-20 23:36:20 +0000
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Reducing tuning time (was Re:  frustrated)

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
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
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