Terry: You'll not get very far with the piano owner. Your best hope is that the "advanced pianist" will have played Story & Irk pianos before and will have her expectations set accordingly. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/15/01 at 6:50 PM Farrell wrote: >I tune many older, low quality pianos that have a lot of noise, false >beats, >etc. in them. Put a good tuning on 'em and they still sound quite a bit >less >than stellar. I tuned a 1974 Sorry & Cluck console today. One of the worst >I >have met in terms of noise (in that you cannot get a clean unison), and >false beats (top two octaves are trashed). It was 30 cents flat in bass and >up to 100 cents flat in high-treble. Raised pitch, & tuned. Then the lady >tells me that in a week or so some friend of hers is coming to visit. This >lady is reported to be a very advanced pianist. The guest will be playing >the piano - that is why the once-every-20-years tuning. > >Now surely anyone that is a good pianist will sit down to play this thing >for about a minute, and then say to the owner "Eleanor, I thought you said >you just had this piano tuned?" Like, I'm tuning this thing and thinking >that this lady will call me in two weeks and want me to "tune it right this >time". I know it is best to not say anything about the lousy pianos to >owners - and I don't. But, boy, in a case like this I really want to tell >her to not expect much - her piano sounds better - but it still sounds >like......well, you know. Any suggestions? > >IT'S NOT MY FAULT YOU HAVE A BAD PIANO, LADY! > >Terry Farrell _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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