Hi Clyde, How where the unisons sounding on this piano? PS - thanks for your private post. Doug Mahard ----- Original Message ----- From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:10 AM Subject: The novice > Friends, > > I am taking this post in a different direction. Sometimes on the first > visit to a client I find the tuning so strange that I think a novice must > have tuned it the last time. > > For example, yesterday I tuned a spinet that I had last tuned in May, 1991, > but the client assured me that someone else tuned it in 1998. It had been > moved to a son's house and back. Before I started, the bass was up to 11c > sharp, the treble was up to 28c flat, but what I found unusual was that a > note 12 cents sharp might be next to a note 15 cents flat, and this occurred > throughout although mostly in the center section. > > When whole sections of the piano are uniformly out of tune, I can easily > account for that, but when a section has differences of up to 25 cents on > adjacent notes, I can only attribute that to a "tooner" who had no idea what > he was doing. Am I right? I decided it was prudent not to express my > thoughts to the client. > > Regards, > Clyde Hollinger > > > > If I were to encounter a piano that had been just tuned to an historical > > temperment I'm sure I'd think that the piano had been tuned by a novice. > > > > Tom Ayers > > > >
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