In a message dated 98-04-09 12:43:59 EDT, you write: << I would appreciate knowing what some of you other tuners think about pounding a piano hard vs soft pounding. One tuner I know pounds pianos really hard and his tunings tend to be very stable and long lasting. But I have also heard other tuners say that pounding hard during the tuning process is not good. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Jim Turner >> My wife tunes for customers after I tuned them the first time. Some of them told her they liked her tuning better than mine. At first I was hurt, because, after all, I'm a man, and better than her, (just kidding). I only have more experience, but there is no difference between our tunings. But what we found out is that the customer was not comparing the end result of the tuning, but the process by which we got there. I am a hard tuner, while strikes the notes softly. And the customer liked that better. As far as stability is concerned, a couple of hard blows will solve that problem. I tune for a theater where they used a small spinet in the pit. They complained that the tuning only lasted 2 or 3 perfomances. So I pounded the daylights out of that piano, making sure each string stayed firm and from then on, it stayed in tune for a week at a time. Willem Blees RPT St. Louis
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