Hi Tom, They most likely got exactly what they paid for. The lowest bidder. Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <Tvak@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 8:50 PM Subject: bad tech puzzler > I've seen some pretty strange things the last couple of days. Tuned a > Steinway A the other day. A#0 had a replacement hammer that belonged in the > 7th octave. No wonder it didn't sound like it's neighbors! The rest of the > hammers were filed so poorly that the guy must have been drunk. There wasn't > a level surface to be seen on any hammer, every one angled down left or down > right. Then I noticed the strings on F6 were crossed on the pin side of the > capo bar. The left string crossed over to the center tuning pin, and vice > versa. > > Then tonight I played at a restaurant and was told that the piano was just > tuned yesterday. There wasn't a unison on the instrument. (Some were pretty > close...some weren't!) I looked inside and I saw a mute sticking in between > two strings on a trichord unison (I use the term loosely). So I figured it > must be a new string, muting out the left and center strings so that they > wouldn't drift out of tune. At the end of the night, when the last table had > left, I looked at the string and noticed that it wasn't new. So I took out > the mute and found the outer two strings were in tune, but the center one was > SHARP! > > Why would someone mute out the left and center strings on a trichord (not a > new string) and leave only one string sounding? > > I did tune the center (sharp) string and there was no inharmonicity or other > problem. It tuned up just fine. The pin wasn't loose. Everything seemed > just fine, but for some reason the guy muted it and it's left neighbor. > > Could there be a rational reason for this? > > Tom Sivak >
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