Tuning Complaint - Help!

[Farrell]

Just curious, have you ever tuned/serviced a "Grand" console/spinet? Truely an experience! I assume not if you say Whitney is at the bottom of the heap!   :-)

And this I can say after spending 6 hours today servicing a 1960s Aeolian spinet in a Missionary Baptist church downtown! 9 strings, regulation, pitch raise, tune. YIKES!  But the $$$ makes me  :-).

Terry Farrell
  
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> 
> In a message dated 6/6/02 7:41:48 AM, Billbrpt@AOL.COM writes:
> 
> << But it is *their* piano and I earn good money taking care of it and get 
> good 
> referrals from them.  It would certainly be counterproductive for me to say 
> what I really think about it.  I tune Kimball products fairly often and have 
> never had the low opinion of them many technicians seem to have.  Most of 
> them sound reasonably good and are very stable, long lasting instruments.  A 
> few of them even qualify as being above average in both looks and tone 
> quality. >>
> 
> Bill, Terry, et. al,
> 
> I agree that some Kimball products are indeed underrated: most are at the 
> least consistent and quite servicable.  That said, I have never tuned a piano 
> more disagreeable than a Whitney(which is actually a subspecies of Kimball).  
> On the last one I happened upon, it didn't matter WHAT the Tunelab said was 
> right, or where my ear tried to place the pitch.  I could never make the bass 
> strings next to the break sound "in tune" according to my ear.  Very 
> frustrating.
> 
> Dave Stahl