Re tuning instability

[Horace Greeley]

At 08:51 AM 2/6/96 -0700, you wrote:
>                      Subject:                              Time:  9:52 AM
>  OFFICE MEMO         Re tuning instability                 Date:  2/6/96
>
>John- If your humidity is stable, and pins are not loose, I would think you
>should be able to achieve a solid tuning. I don't think plate fasteners,
>bridge/string anomalies, etc. are your problem. Make sure that all people
>tuning the piano are committed to strenuous test blows. Here at Oberlin, we
>quantitate test blows on the "Strichter Scale" of one to five, with number
>five test blows being necessary to stabililize a piano for a weekend Liszt
>festival. On our concert pianos, our motto is, "If you aren't committed to
>stabilizing it, don't change it." Also, if you haven't broken strings
>occasionally with test blows, you haven't reached grade five on the "Strichter
>Scale".
>
>Ken Sloane, Oberlin Conservatory
>
And AMEN to all that

Horace