First Piano Tuning evaluation video

Well some of you know I am taking the Randy Potter Piano tuning course and it I have come to the point in the course where I need to send in a video for him to critique, and soooo I thought I would also put it up on youtube for any piano tuners on here to critique if you would be sooo kind. =D Let me know what ya think.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• piano
• tuning
• evaluation
• randy
• potter
• keyboard
• educational

[Drumdok89]

ive been thinking about getting some piano tuning tools, is it worth it?

[poultryenthusiast]

@Drumdok89 Well it would take a while to start making money at it if that is what you are going for, and without an electronic tuner it would prolly take quite a while before you could give a piano a decent tuning by ear, but it is a good thing to know how to do if you are an active musician. Also if you are ever recording a piano and one or 2 notes are off it prolly wouldn't take long for you to get good enough to tweak those few notes that are off so the recording isn't terrible.

[Flame0213]

hey i just got a new piano, and have been thinking about tunning it my self, but when i see the inside of the piano, you got two strings for one note, how you know which one you have to move?

[poultryenthusiast]

@Flame0213 Both have to be moved and on the mid to high notes you should have 3 strings, in which case all 3 must be moved.

[poultryenthusiast]

It takes a lifetime I guess.lol you never stop learning, but I think if you put your mind to it 6 months or so and you could be giving pianos a decent tuning job. The Verituner makes it easy.

[14FLESTER]

@alejandrocolorado Linus and Lucy by George Winston

[willemvdr12]

Aren´t you turning the pins a bit much? I would think that's not good for the grip of the tuning pins in the tuning block, and will cause a faster ''getting false'' of the strings? (Don't know how to say it right in english)

[RastaGirl331]

I thought on pianos that havent been tuned in 2+ years (and this is so awfully out of tune lol) that they have to have a "Pitch Raise", because if you bring it up too quickly is can stress the plate. Is this what you're doing? - Also, Great vid, Cheers!

[coninbrigia]

very good I  like you

[datacadman]

@poultryenthusiast Well if you can't afford one of those really good electronic tuners but have an electronic keyboard. You can tune by ear off of that. Wiping rusty strings with some solvent like Hopps No. 9 from a gun shop or I've seen some use kerosene might liven up the strings but the action might be slightly out of alignment as well.

I'm trying to learn how to do this too and you do need that tuning hammer and those dampers which you could make yourself but not the tuning hammer.

[GenMata]

How far into the course was it before this evaluation?

Are you getting lots of tuning jobs now?

[alejandrocolorado]

what is the name of the music on the background?