Good Evening All, I have a bit of a puzzler. Perhaps some of you deep thinkers out there could shed some light. I just tuned a Howard grand (read cheap) for the second time since it was new. I tuned it the first time as well. It had noticeably loose tuning pins in an instrument only 1 year old. I should mention at this junkture that this piano resides in a community are of a rather large nursing home (read 80 degrees or more ALL THE TIME). In the same room is a 90,000 BTU gas fireplace that is used frequently. Additionally the heating system is water pipes under the floor heating the floor itself and thus the rest of the room. The ceiling is 3 1/2 stories up. The theory behind this type of heat is that if your feet are warm , so then is the rest of you. By now your asking, Greg, what's the question? Well, I'm glad you asked!!!! I understand that these things can cause a loose pinblock in so short a time. I can also understand why the piano was pretty badly out of tune. What I don't understand is why I also discovered problems of damper guide rail holes being too tight and needing easing. Also I found a hammer flange or 2 that needed repinning as well. Now this is where I'm confused. It's no mystery to me that this is not the Cadillac of pianos but why do I seem to have 2 different sets of problems normally caused by 2 different sets of conditions? There that's my question and I'm stickin to it! BTW, I have asked the owner of the nursing home to begin keeping a chart to show humidity fluctuations. I mentioned that the more often during the day that they recorded readings the better we might be able to diagnose the problem. I countin on you! kindest regards, Greg Greg & Mary Ellen Newell Greg's Piano Forte' 12970 Harlon Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 e-mail; gnewell@en.com or dt945@cleveland.freenet.edu (216) 226-3791
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