hard pounding

[Delwin D Fandrich]

JIMRPT wrote:

> cpstout;
>  Good observation.  I suppose a piano whose strings render well is just as
> easy to 'knock' out of tune as it is to 'knock' in tune huh?
> So do we want a piano whose strings render well when tuning and are 'sticky'
> when being played ?......There you go Del, another challenge for you :-).

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Jim,

Tuned a Steinway 1098 recently?

Seriously, back in the old days when I was doing a lot of concert tuning I learned to hit
the keys just as hard as the pianist was likely to hit them. No harder, or I'd wear out my
fingers and probably the piano as well. In the years that I did this work I never once had
a complaint about unisons going out during a performance. It seems to have worked.

It seems that there does need to be some minimum amount of friction (normally supplied by
having adequate string deflection at the termination points) if the piano is to be easily
tuned.

-- ddf