"training" pianos?

[Carman Gentile]

   Yes, I think that even if a piano has been neglected in its first few 
years, it CAN be "saved" and brought back to the righteous path with 
regular service.
Carman

At 09:58 PM 11/4/2003 -0500, JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 04/11/03 8:22:05 PM, kevin.e.ramsey@cox.net writes:
>
><<  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
>  >>
><<May I suggest that the above tuner's explanation may not have been too
>much B.S. after all, but just his own effort to illustrate the necessity of
>regular tunings.
>Carman Gentile RPT>>
>
>I agree Carman. We will never know what the tech said exactly and what the
>customer says the tech said may not reflect the meaning/words as the tech
>intended, rather more than likely the customer's interpetation of those
>remarks...........
>
>as for "If a piano is not tuned regularly in its early life, it will never
>hold a tune?" Tom there is some truth to this feeling ...perhaps :-)
>
>  A newly strung piano has a certain preordained amount of 
> stretching/settling
>to do based on the design/scale/climate.......so in some cases the statement
>could be true....let's say a piano is delivered new to a customer and the
>customer does not have it tuned for two years...surely a pitch raise will be
>called for......and the pitch raise will leave a basically unstable piano 
>with
>still new strings which haven't stopped their streching/settling and a
>soundboard/bridge mechanism which has not settled in to it's final (more 
>or less)
>position... the piano is not tuned again for two years and the same 
>situation is in
>play...another two years, etc., etc.............gonna be an unstable piano 
>for
>a longgggg time huh?
>  Wheras the same piano receiving frequent tunings during the first two years
>will be a much more stable instrument...even after being neglected for the
>following two years...huh?
>  Maybe what we really are discussing are 'unstable customers' :-)
>
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>"I have my own little world. But it's OK... they know me here."