MAJOR peeve

[Greg Newell]

Gregory who?

        Greg Newell
        gnewell@en.com



GFi5607775@AOL.COM wrote:

> pianotech@ptg.org
>
> Come over and tune with me !!! We don't even "think" about dampchasers.
>
> In Riyadh Saudi Arabia..it's about 40 to 43%RH "all year long" My stability is
> near to "Zero" drift for about 1 year!!!
>
> Unfortunately for me, I am just today ordering a humidity gauge, I have kept
> accurate record of each and every I've tuned in the last 10 years out in the
> desert.
>
> "All" let me say "every" piano that gets to me within 1 year is a loose as can
> be.
>
> This I think is a blessing in disguise. After tightening up everything
> "everything"
> (Yep check all those plate bolts too...yep all of them) I have pianos now for
> more than 9 years, that have "never" been off more than 2% after one year!
>
> I was called to Hafra Battan, to a camp, and sat down to tune, and found to my
> amazement, it was not even 4% low. Hum I thought, pretty good work for this
> area.
> ( most of the service I see performed by one eared mules are never even
> ....well + or- 50 to 135% is not uncommon.
>
> Further inspection reviled, it was one of my pianos, the client told me he got
> it from this person that person got it from someone else, etc., well I had
> "secretly" left my small identification mark on the inside, this piano was
> moved 6 times back and forth across the country, and had not drifted 4%. The
> client assured me "no one had tuned the piano "ever" (except me over 5 years
> ago)
>
> Moving makes a piano go out of tune...get real....tuners make pianos go out of
> tune.
>
> Gregory