Clyde Hollinger wrote: > Kristinn, > > I'm not an engineer, so I don't know why the bass changes (or doesn't change) in > tandem with the rest of the piano when the humidity changes. I just know it's > pretty common around here. > > I'm responding to mention another possibility. Is the piano a vertical? If the > weight distribution on the four casters is different than before because of the > floor of the room, that can have a rather dramatic effect on the tuning. I am > tentatively planning on demonstrating this at our next chapter meeting. > THIS I would Like to see... grin. who knows ??? > > Regards, > Clyde Hollinger, RPT > Lititz, PA, USA > > Kristinn Leifsson wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > thank you, but of course I know about humidity drop. > > Actually this piano was moved just a few weeks before I tuned it, but > > should have settled enough, at least weīre used to that here. > > I didnīt take readings, I normally donīt. We have pretty steady heating > > here, geothermal ya know, but normally the indoors climate tends to be a > > tad dry. There arenīt big swings in humidity as things go in regular > > houses here, at least compared to places where most of you are from. > > > > But what happened was that everything *except* the bass dropped. Spot on, > > from the first bass note. > > The bass is still right up to pitch and in tune. > > And the rest of the piano is "relatively" in tune with itself, that is, the > > lowest tenor note upwards. Did you get that? > > Why would a drop in humidity not affect the bass? And donīt tell me itīs > > because of longer strings :-) -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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