ETD Question

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Greg.. I get the feeling from some of the posts that this problem is a
CE version related thing more then it is anything else. Actually the piano
itself is not a bad sounding fellow. A bit harsh but nothing that couldnt
be helped by a bit of voicing. Perhaps dressing up the capo bar would give
substantial benifits as well, tho you fellows know me and my "love" of
hard, wide, round Capo terminations...grin.. made to buzz sooner or later
:)

This one has the beginnings of that kind of by-tone in that area, but its
not bad and the "duplex" is not overly active by anymeans. Its kind of a
bear to tune tho.. hard to get a good solid feel for pin setting. The pins
dont stick in the conventional sense of the word, but when the "give" and
start to move they do so quickly, in spite of being rather tight. This
combined with very uneven rendering over the whole piano makes the feel of
tuning rather unpredictable. Annoying, but certainly overcomeable. Worse is
the fact that it gets way to much mid day sunshine. Immpossible to do
anything about it. School piano dont you see... I wont get into all that..
grin.

Thanks for the input


Greg Newell wrote:
> 
> Richard,
>     I tuned one of these for about 7 years with none of the problems you report. It
> was in the grand lobby of a full service, high brow  hotel. All this happened during
> a transition period for me. I started with the client tuning aurally then used a
> refurbished upgraded (now for sale) Accutuner and then Tunelab. In each time period I
> never failed to get good clear readings and tunings. I liked the piano. It also was a
> good money maker for me because the jazz pianist who played every night just loved to
> break strings in the high treble.
> 
> Greg Newell
> 
> 
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Richard Brekne
Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway