[CAUT] Reality check...Big Time!

Susan Kline skline at peak.org
Fri Dec 10 23:18:16 MST 2010


On 12/10/2010 6:05 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
> This was only the second piano I've ever tuned that was well over a 
> full step flat---the middle was down a full step and a half. Sigh.

The very first private tuning job I had (while I was still in Ted 
Sambell's course) was a big old upright way out in the country, painted 
aqua. Most of it was a perfect fourth flat.

I carefully raised it a half step at a time, in two visits. Nothing 
broke. I tuned it two or three more times before I moved away. It was 
even stable.

I tuned a big upright piano (pretty thing) locally which was about a 
minor third flat, like the one Del tuned. It had last been tuned in 
1938. The 85 year old lady knew that, because her family had owned it 
the whole time. She wanted to send it to her daughter in the Southwest, 
and she wanted to be sure it was going to hold up okay. It did beautifully.

Susan Kline


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