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The experience of tuning pianos by ear is unparalleled. You must know how to tune aurally, because if you only use an electronic tuner without it, you will stop being a piano tuner, in case you cannot charge the battery of your device if you are away from the city.
Yes! The course includes a section where I show you all the field repairs and I’m adding to this section often as you go through the mentorship. You will know how to repair all types of issuers with uprights and grand pianos.
People make a big deal about tuning unisons by ear. It is the best and fastest way, other than perhaps the very high treble. The reality is anyone who has ever tuned a guitar by ear (the proven old method E fifth fret to A and so on) is 90% of the way toward knowing how to tune a unison. All you really have to learn is how to get it to stay in the right place.
Hey Eric, just had a quick question. My wife and I are retiring, we've bought a conversion van and traveling the country. Can someone like us do piano tuning and using it to support our traveling? Or does it make more sense to stay in one place to be successful in tuning?
The hammer shouldn’t be resting on that felt rail at all - the piano needs regulating: kawaius.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Kawai-Grand-Piano-Regulation-Manual.pdf
My father took a piano tuning course I believe he became one in 1969 he did it for years up until I guess 2014 timeframe he was really good e tune for Tom T Hall he tuned I mean that's just one time but still it was neat and he 1 piano tuning he did it was a Korean pianist or and he hit his head that's the best piano tuning he'd ever had dad was really took his time and you could talk to him while he was tuning except during the also he said one time I used to go on jobs with him and it's really amazing he too it was his love really as far as work goes he did other things Yet piano tuning was his love and obviously work-related this when I mean mom he loves mom the most yet mom always supported him he was one of the few piano tuners in the country who could make certain of his own heart he come in while we were watching TV and and everything he said look and he's holed up a hammerhead you have to pain I know some of the parts just from working with him a bit he'd have the pin and fell and he let me do certain things like glue things on the piano I'm sorry I'm not a tuner so I have to say that he lived out everything that all the parts inside the piano he lived it out and you need to call that the guts to the piano he called him and he called himself a father who could do all those things makes me wish I had a gift for it cuz of course he tune by ear and he did have instruments as well yet he mostly tune by ear he was say he would I miss him just talking about this thank you for letting me share😅😊
@oliverheaviside2539 Oh, you're definitely right. I just meant apposed to nut drivers, which in my experience are used often for similar aplications, and can apply much more torque.
Ok let me get this straight you put the keyboard on the piano bench and nothing to protect the bench? What keeps that screw from back back out over time? There isn't some sort of lock screw?
I don’t think the country church cares about the bench that much, plus people sit on the bench anyways and it’s practical to just set it there to make a fox that actually effects the sound of the piano unlike the cosmetics of the bench, even if it was scratched, which I doubt, you could use paint markers to clean up any wood scratches
Also the felt right next to it and just the general motion of the hammer seems to be the cause of the loose screw, and there is no lock screw on this piano and many others, don’t ask me why cause idk🤷♂️
The Rach 3rd Concerto uses it, I know that I know other pieces that use the Top C but can’t think off the top of my head Edit: It’s in the last movment, right before the VERY ending, one bar after rehearsal mark 76. Depending on what edition you use it may be one of the last 2-3 pages of the entire piece
The cats knocked loose the music stand. I've got the screws and need to take the top and keys cover off. The top lid panel doesn't seem to lift up so easily. More aggression needed?
I agree with most of what he says. For me the accutuner does a great job. And there ways to refine the tuning as you go. But especially in older pianos Not so good pianos Pianos that have lots of false beats the accu tuner can’t hear the string enough to tune it. On unisons it may or may not be better than the ear. I recently tuned at the local college: Many pianos strings had false beats. Tuner wouldn’t give an accurate pitch on some. I’m starting to tune some by ear. I passed the Community College in Tuning and repair several years ago. And passed the PTG test. Using a tuning fork. Tuning made a 90 grade. On two of the school pianos. The accu tuner wouldn’t work because of extreme false beats I the upper register around F5. So I got my partner to tune those two pianos. He tunes by ear. I probably could have tuned them but it would have taken me a lot longer for me to tune them. He tuned each one in about 1 hour 15 minutes. We had 30 to do. Time was important.
Tuned a 1949 Cable-Nelson Spinet at a Church yesterday, what a difference a quick 10 minutes with the Rapid Voicer made. Deeply grooved hammers so much that the bass hammers were striking 2 notes. A quick file on them and just used the RVer to take the ting out of the rest. Greatest tool I ever bought in my tool kit!
It's called multiple sclerosis of the piano, and a serious debilitating condition to the piano as well as a heart-wrenching experience to the piano owner. 😭
