has anyone ever done this....

[Willem Blees]

Brian

After installing it, tune the string a half step high. (yes, a half a step. e2 to f2). If all you're doing is installing the string, let it sit for a while. Talk to the customer, go out to the car and rearrange your trunk, take a walk around the block, anything to spend about 15 minutes. Then before you leave, tune the string about 15 cents high, but tell the customer that the note will be out of tune for a while, then it will sound OK, for a while, and then it will start sounding bad again. Then tell her that when she can't stand it any more, to call you, because by then, it will be time to tune the whole piano again. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Doepke <bdoepke at verizon.net>
To: 'Pianotech List' <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:46 am
Subject: has anyone ever done this....




I have a client that lives pretty far away and I have a new single wound string to replace in her piano.  In order to save another trip out there *after* it is installed…you know, for string +stretch+ , is there a way to pre-stretch the string so that there will be minimal stretch after it is installed?

 

Brian P. Doepke, (dep-kee)

R.P.T. (Registered Piano Technician)

AAA Piano Works, Inc.

Piano Tuning-Repair-Purchase Consults

260.417.1298

260.432.2043

    www.aaapianoworks.com

 



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