[CAUT] Steinway Upright tuning

[Ron Nossaman]

> List,
> I'm a recent RPT and caut.   Today I was forced to take a break while 
> tuning a Steinway Model 45 piano due to the squirminess of the pitch.  
> Can anyone suggest a plan of attack on these particular (or any Steinway 
> upright) that makes for an efficient tuning session?
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 
> Joe Wiencek

You mean other than drugs, or declining to participate 
altogether? Not that you need to be in the altogether to 
decline to participate, but in this case it's worth serious 
consideration if there's a chance it'll help.

Best I've found is hammer at 11:00, do your best to minimize 
pin flagpoling, forget automatic formula processes and deal 
directly in real time in excruciating detail with each and 
every pin, and mutter as many incantations as possible during 
the process to bring down an eternal plague of exceptionally 
toxic fleas on the designer of these wretched things. It may 
not actually help, but it's as close as I've been able to come 
to the illusion of meaningful participation in dealing with 
these overweight family photograph display shelves.

Ron N