Jim, > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On > Behalf Of JIMRPT@aol.com > Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 6:37 PM > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Out of tune(probably an argument, here) << ..... I had a customer who swore I had ruined her piano by tuning it!!!! Well I went back and checked it...everything seemed OK save a little loosness...so I retouched all the unisons and she screamed louder that it sounded awful and dead.........remembering that my Uncle Smitty had told me that some people get used to hearing their piano out > of tune and didn't like an "in tune sound"...I went back over all the tenor/treble and detuned one string of each unison...she loved it! and I tuned her piano that way for aprox fifteen years until she passed away.....................>> I've got a good piano teacher with a Steinway B. She complains occasionally about some notes sounding "dead." They are the unisons perfectly in tune. But...when I tune the piano (all unisons in perfect tune), she comments about how I've "put the resonance back and it sounds really good." John Formsma
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