square grand tuning: fun & $$

[Bob Hull]

Jim,
My daughter and I left with our usual Friday night
tuning fee plus a $20 tip.  Then, we took this $180
and headed for the late show with enough money to buy
popcorn! I gave her a very nice share!

Bob Hull


--- Jim Kinnear <jim@pianoguy.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
> > 
> 
> ----- 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
> >


		
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