[CAUT] Steinway 1098

[Jeff Tanner]

Re: [CAUT] Steinway 1098I assume self-taught.  If an ETD was involved it would be nothing more than a simple inexpensive device for the temperament section.  But I think what he does is aural.

I found the piano in suprisingly good tune (good, but not "perfect" contiguous thirds or perfectly even 4ths or 5ths, but solid unisons and suprisingly decent octaves), and it had been some time since he had tuned it.  Any tuning that will hold up to any playing over time will hold up to reasonably hard playing, but no, it wasn't being played by a Russian concert artist.  The wife is a teacher, so the piano was getting frequent use.  Perhaps mostly in the middle two octaves, but daily frequent use.

Thing is, when that's what you have to learn to tune on, you learn how to tune it.
Tanner
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Ilvedson 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 12:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway 1098


    Jeff,

    So let's talk about environment?   What do you know about that?   Self-taught?   Using a ETD?   
    Was it stable to some hard playing?   I have to admit to some real skepticism with your findings...

    David Ilvedson, RPT
    Pacifica, CA 94044


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      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Jeff Tanner 
      To: caut at ptg.org 
      Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 7:23 PM
      Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway 1098
      In fact, some friends of mine recently sold one they bought some years ago after it had spent some years in a college practice room.  He refinished it himself (actually, a very nice job) and had action work done on it in the late 1970s by someone who apparently knew what they were doing (new hammers, etc.), and she had been teaching on it up until she inherited her parents Mason & Hamlin A last year.  It remains a very nice example of what a 1940s Steinway 45/1098 can be like after 60 plus years.
        
      Tanner
    ...and I might add, that he's been tuning it himself all these years.  He just up and taught himself to tune -- a Steinway 45 no less -- and that's the only piano he tunes.  The first time I saw it he had asked me to come look it over and give them an idea of what to sell it for.  I was surprised that his tuning was so good, and I couldn't help but think how a once-a-year amateur tuner could do that well with a Steinway 45/1098 while the pros gripe and complain about them.
      
    Tanner
        
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