I am curious also at why a new piano would go out of tune so very quickly. It has really caught my attention that a poorly fitted pinblock, loose pinblock screws, or loose plate screws could produce measureable instability problems. But to clearly characterize the piano's out-of-tuneness, the requested information was "how MUCH was it out of tune", i.e. please provide a quantification of "flat" and "wavy" in beats/second or cents. To quote my high school physics teacher whose words still echo in my ears: "Units, units, units, where are your units. Your data is meaningless if you do not indicate your units." (Those dudes @ NASA working on that recent mars probe (the one that crashed because of a metric/english units mixup) should have had MY physics teacher!) Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charly Tuner" <charly_tuner@hotmail.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 1:02 AM Subject: Re: fun at the piano store! > It was flat in the treble, and uinsons out up and down the keyboard. Two > days after the last tech tuned it, I played chromatically and the vast > majority of bi, tri unisons were very "wavy". > > Terry. > > >From: "Dan & Martha Reed" <pianoman@airmail.net> > >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > >To: pianotech@ptg.org > >Subject: Re: fun at the piano store! > >Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:11:42 -0600 > > > > > >Terry, > > > >This new C-5 Yamaha that is not holding tune... how much was it out of > >tune: > >#1- when you first tuned it...and #2- how far out was it when you checked > >it > >after the other technician tuned it? > > > >Dan > > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >
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