---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I recently agreed to tune my ex-wife's 10 year old Schiedmayer(built by Kawai to Schiedmayer specs) 6 foot grand piano. It was moved from the Sierra foothills over 2 years ago, and was last tuned by me in April of 2002 BEFORE the move. It went from a house where the heat didn't go on until the temperature dropped to 50 degrees, and the AC didn't switch on until it hit 80, to a house where the temperature is probably 70.352 degrees 24/7/365. The last time I tuned it I spent 6 hours tweaking, pounding, tuning, retuning, playing, tuning, and getting it as stable as I could--far more stable than our relationship, it turns out....:-). When I went into her house to see how much of a pitch raise it needed, I was surprised to find it only 0-5 cents flat throughout the entire instument, and the unisons were not in bad shape at all. I find it interesting that a piano that underwent a 3000 foot elevation drop, a 150 mile move, and fairly substantial temperature change would hold it's tune so well for 2 years! I was surprised to say the least. There are times when I swear I've socked in a piano in a stable environment really well only to go back 6 months later and find it sounding like a honky-tonk pianner. Sometimes we just get lucky, I guess. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6d/fd/4e/28/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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