Clyde Hollinger wrote: > > Richard, > > The only thing I have to go on regarding manufacturer recommendations is a brochure > PTG used to print, and probably still does, that showed most recommended two tunings > per year. Am I correct in assuming that when you say many recommend 4 times yearly, > you mean at least 50% of them? How many factories are we talking about? Maybe PTG > should update its information if it has not already done so. > I must admit I am working off recall memory. It seems to me that at least half of these were recommendations for 4 times a year. These were from websites of the respected pianos. There was a list compliled also by the PTG on the Web as I recall. I think there were 10 to 12 factories listed. I will look around and see what I can dig up. > > Interesting case (to me, at least): A local family bought a new studio piano of > eastern origin. First tuning by me in March 1999 it was up to 48c sharp, at a time > when pianos are normally flat. I pitch-lowered to 10c sharp and tuned it there. > August 1999, seasonal humidity had taken the piano to 25c sharp; I again tuned it 10c > sharp. February this year it was 12c flat. I'm glad now I didn't tune it to A-440 > the first time I saw it. As we all know, it REALLY needs humidity control. Grin... this wouldnt happen to be a Samick would it ?? Sounds very very familiar in any case.. > > > I have some clients whose piano hardly gets used at all, and some of these are the > type who are thinking of tuning "once-every-15-years." I encourage them to buy at > least 2-year tunings. This is the lowest frequency I will call back with reminders > about service due. Some of them follow through with this recommendation, and some > don't. I have never had another technician agree with me that 2-year tunings are > acceptable in cases like these, but I'm sticking to it, since I often find these > pianos with very little change, tuning or otherwise. I wouldnt aggree either.. :) but I do see your point. And I suppose if you can get folks who otherwise would wait 5 years or more between tunings then you have accomplished something. So all in all I wouldnt have any major objections to a tuner employing this policy. > > Regards, > Clyde > > -- Richard Brekne Associate PTG, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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