July 18
This is our new testimonial video that we will be playing at our booth at the PTG convention in Arlington, VA, next week! Thank you students and technicians!
Test Your Ears for Piano Tuning! It doesn’t matter how you tune a piano – with an ETD or by ear – if you can’t hear beats, then you can’t tune a piano well. Beats are part of bad unisons and they are part of every test you will ever do to test the ETD.
Read MoreBeginning technicians are often advised to initially set F3-A3 to 7 beats per second (bps). Mathematically F3-A3 = 6.9 bps in equal temperament so it’s a good guess.After using the skeleton or contiguous M3’s also known as Jack’s Stack, we can refine F3-A3 to be more what the piano needs, but 7 bps is a
Read MoreI often read questions on piano technician forums from technicians asking how to regulate a specific piano. For example, recently someone posted this.“I’m regulating a piano and the book says to regulate blow distance at 1.5 inches”or“I can’t find any regulation specs for this specific piano in any books” The writing of these books implies
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