Hi Richard, Yes, I would very much appreciate receiving those articles you mentioned regarding humidity, and its effects on pianos. thanks! Terry >From: Richard Brekne <richardb@c2i.net> >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: pianotech@ptg.org >Subject: Re: Stable Floor tunings? >Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 01:26:26 +0100 > >Hi Terry, while aggreeing on most points with most respected Dan M, (and >others) >I dont really adhere to this pounding buisness, not at least as I >understand the >word pounding to mean. Ok, you got to hit the keys hard, but no harder then >the >thumb and forfinger from about 2 inches away allow for. My experience tells >me >that any harder than this really accomplishes nothing, tho it may create >the >illusion of doing so. Regardless of how much you pound out over reasonalble >hard >play, you are still going to have to re-tune the piano in a few weeks... >nothing >really changes. (Flame suit not neccessary as I am inflamable... grin) > >Otherwise you pretty well sum it up in your origional post, new pianos... >cheap >ones that dont get enough attention at the factory especially.... in a >location >with no humidity controll and large variations in the humidity.... this is >a >prescription for unstablitity in tuning. Do your self a favour... read up, >research as much as you can get your hands on about what is really known >about >humidity and how it affects instruments and their construction. Get >yourself >armed with authoritive information so that you can speak with authority to >store >owners and the like. And through the years put yourself in a position, >through >hard work and learned skill, where you can walk away from individuals who >simply >are not interested in understanding the truth of this matter. > >Untill then my freind, you are going to just have to make the best of it. >Sometimes you will have to eat the proverbial sh--, from unfair and >unreasonable >types that you simply need cuz of money concerns. But know that you are >correct >in your assessment of the problem, and dont let it get you down or make you >feel >like "its you" and not the piano. You will get better control over >stability >concerns as it relates to hammer technique as time goes by anyways. But >what you >describe is more typical of other factors then hammer technique. (poor >hammer >technique normally shows results in a much shorter time... grin... like >within a >couple days.) > >If you like I can send you a few articles I have pertaining to humidity >concerns >that you may not have found. In addition there are routinely articles in >the >Journal. You should collect these and read them and all other pertainant >information. > >Keep on keeping on. > > > >-- >Richard Brekne >Associate PTG, N.P.T.F. >Bergen, Norway > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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