"training" pianos?

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Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:08:19 EST


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I recently tuned a 3 year old Baldwin console.   The client told me that 
thier piano didn't stay in tune for very long and that the previous tuner had told 
her that it was probably because she didn't have it tuned regularly when she 
first got it.   (This piano had not been tuned for over a year after they 
first got it.)    

Their tuner said that it hadn't been "trained" properly, and it would never 
hold a tune very well.

Now I had never heard of this and I told her so.   The piano was certainly 
out of tune when I first got there, but it had been about 9 months since it was 
last tuned, so there was nothing out of the ordinary as far as I could see.   
The pins were Baldwin-tight.

I did my best to make my tuning as stable as possible, and I'll have to wait 
till they call for another tuning before I'll find out if there is an actual 
problem or not.   

But, has anyone ever heard of such a thing?   If a piano is not tuned 
regularly in its early life, it will never hold a tune?   I can't fathom that this 
could be true...sounds like a line of BS.   

But then, what do I know? (Answer: Less and less as time goes on!)

Tom Sivak

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