Very interesting question--

[Paul Chick (Earthlink)]

Subject: RE: Very interesting question--

 

    I've encountered maybe two pianos over 30 years that were about a minor
third flat (about 300 cents), and they had come from humid climates to a dry
one, so the soundboard lost much crown.  I've found individual strings much
flatter, of course, due to loose tuning pins.  

    --David Nereson, RPT

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Very interesting question--

I wonder what the limit is as to how far flat a piano will go if it is never
tuned.  

 

Jesse Gitnik

 

For what it's worth: my last call was a "just a tuning" call.  They ushered
me to the piano and said their son is showing some interest and asked to
have it tuned because it doesn't sound like his friends' piano.  "We bought
it new, locally, but never had it tuned."  It's a 15 year old W.W. Kimball,
their cheapest model, looking like new inside and out.  It sounded even
without a lot of wild unisons.  I gave them my "up to pitch" pitch, which
they declined. So, I tuned it where it was, to A425, going over the middle
octaves twice to bring them in tune.finished in less than an hour.  This
time of year in S.E Minnesota one sees a lot of  FLAT pianos, well below
A425, that get quasi-regular tunings.  Go figure.

 

Paul C

 

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