"training" pianos?

[kenneth.gerler]

Tom,
Sounds like the previous tuner wanted to sell them a different piano.

I have customers that have acquired older pianos that have not seen a tuner
*ever* (except at the factory) and after several tunings like you would give
a new piano, they hold their tune very well, Thank you.

Now, I have a couple of church that bought new Yamaha's (P22 and a C-5) and
I have had to install D-C systems in both because I was going ever 2 to 3
months to tune them (like you would expect) (but they were out a month after
I tuned them) and now I tune them between every 11 to 15 months. (I have a
few other churches the same way).

Ken


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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