[CAUT] Steinway Upright tuning

[Keith Roberts]

I read one tuner liked them, thought they were easy. He was left handed.
That would jive with the 11 o'c;ock position.

Keith Roberts


On 8/15/07, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> > 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
>
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