near impossible tuning

Joe And Penny Goss imatunr@srvinet.com
Fri Mar 3 04:18:14 MST 2006


Hi Ed, May not help but try moving the tuning hammer counter clock wise two
hours from what you normally do.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <A440A@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: near impossible tuning


> Greetings,
>    While I am wrestling with a bear, it occurs to me to ask if any others
> have also,and what perhaps helped.
> I am dealing with a 4 year old Kawai RX-6 that is giving me more stability
> problems than any piano I have dealt with in 30 years. It is in a large
church,
> full amplification, monitors and everything, however, it is not being
played
> excessively hard.  The humidity is far more consistant than many other
venues I
> work around, and it has a complete humidity control system.  The pins are
> plenty tight,etc.   The problem is rendering!
>       It occurs in the capo sections.  It is one of those pianos that
feels
> like there is no friction on the capo bars or string rests.  I have had
unisons
> with 5 cents in them appear before I finish the tuning, and while I can
> usually finagle the obvious wild unisons back into place, by the next day,
there is
> always a few with a cent or two showing up.
>       Anybody else run into this and find a magic, silver bullet?
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>
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