square grand tuning: fun & $$

[Jim Kinnear]

But of course the job was difficult, but one wonders what it was worth,
given the open ended 'blank cheque???
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Jim Kinnear
www.kinnearpiano.com
Collingwood, ON, Canada



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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Hull" <hullfam5@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: square grand tuning: fun


> Last Friday I received an emergency tuning request for
> someone having a Christmas party and using an 1859
> Steinway square grand.  The pianist had just come to
> try it out and said it was really out of tune.
>
> So, the owners called me and said they would pay
> whatever if I would come and tune it before the party.
>
>
> This was my first square to tune.  It had just been
> rebuilt and purchased from another state.  I took my
> daughter to play the keys.  That sort of worked.  It's
> hard to get someone else to play the keys and
> intervals like you want.  The torque on the pins was
> off the scale.  I would think 200+, so, very hard to
> manipulate.  I hope those will loosen up with
> subsequent tunings.   A couple of hammers grazed
> strings on adjacent notes and there wasn't time to fix
> those.
>
> All in all it was a very difficult job and the results
> were not anything I would want another tech to hear.
>
> Bob Hull
>
>
> --- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > >I nearly always use my P-12ths rendering on tunelab
> > for these. Seems to give a very nice result. Never
> > tried the assistant bit... tho I suppose if they
> > were willing to work for half of minimum wage I
> > might consider it :)
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Cheers
> > RicB
> >
> > >>The last time I tuned either one was before I had
> > my RCT.  Just a wild
> > >>idea, but has anyone tried tuning a big square
> > using an assistant at the
> > >>keys and you in the back with ETD and tuning
> > hammer?  Could be easier on
> > >>the back.
> > >>
> > >>Conrad Hoffsommer
> > >>
> > >>
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