I had a customer who was interested in learning tuning. She watched me while I raised my blood pressure on her 1098. 2 hours later I stumbled out the door. She never did go into tuning pianos...;-] David I. ' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Tuning Steinway Verticals > At 01:43 PM 9/16/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >Don't ask me... my tunings still sound worse than what was on the piano > >beforehand- and I'm not ashamed to say so. > > I've struggled with ONE 1098 for 3+ hours (sweating profusely all the > while) to try to avoid having this happen -- and it was a close thing. > > I can't imagine dealing with a whole covey, herd, flock, whatever of them, > day after day. I suppose in the end one learns what they will and won't do. > > I find an impact hammer makes tuning them less agonizing -- still > agonizing, mind, but less so than trying to use my standard technique on them. > > Susan > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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