---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List, I got a call from a gentleman the other day who lives in the hills high above the Bay Area. In Los Gatos to be exact. He said he has a 15 year old Kawai GS60 (a 6'10" or so grand that has since been replaced by the RX 6). The kicker was that it hadn't been tuned in 10 years, or so he says. I was ready for a major pitch raise, some regulation, a good interior cleaning, and a fine tuning. He was expecting a professional pianist to come to his house to play it in a couple of nights(that would be tonight), so he wanted to dial it in really nicely. I was certainly not expecting what I found. After a long drive up Highway 9, and a continuation up a twisty little private road, I arrived at the residence. I walked in expecting a piano completely out of whack. What I got was a piano that was between 0 and 5 cents flat(upper treble only). The bass was barely off at all. There were quite a few whiny unisons, just what you'd expect after 6 months or a year! And the regulation was far better than what one sees in most showrooms! I asked him if he was certain that it hadn't been tuned in 10 years. He swore up and down that it had it's free tuning, then five years later it was tuned again. That was it. Hadn't been touched in ten years. In a state of disbelief, I asked him about the climatic conditions in the room: were they stable? He said that it gets really hot in the summer, and cool in the winter, and he hasn't had AC since the '99 stock slide. I asked him who the previous tuner had been. He said somebody named Anderson. I only know one tuner named Anderson around here, and I'm not altogether convinced that he would go so far out of his way to tune a piano. It got me to thinking...Dave Anderson, are you out there? Have you ever tuned in the Bay Area??? I spent an hour and a half getting the piano sounding as good as possible. The only downside to the instrument was that there were quite a few false strings in the high treble. And the room was incredibly live(tile floors), which accentuated the beats. Any notions on how a then-new piano could be so stable with so little maintenance?? No dampp-chaser. I know where he bought it, and it is unlikely that the dealer spent any money prepping the piano extensively. Quizzically, Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/35/72/64/6c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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