left-handed tuning

[John Ross]

My right is stronger than my left, because I am right handed.
So I don't think it is a leverage issue.
If you are right handed, that side has the strength.  The opposite would hold true for left handed.

John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michelle Smith 
  To: 'Pianotech List' 
  Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 6:26 PM
  Subject: RE: left-handed tuning


  Thanks to everyone for your informative responses!  The reason I started thinking about all of this was because of a piano I never want to see again.  (Ha Ha!)  It was a school upright that had been sitting in a small practice room forever.  Something had happened with the pinblock and the pins would barely move!  When I tuned left handed, I seemed to have to bring the string really far sharp to get the pin to move even slightly.  One of the strings broke and many others were probably on their way.  When I switched to my right hand, the pins moved a little easier.  My theory is that the point of pressure is different when tuning left handed (upward) as opposed to right handed (downward) and that particular piano just couldn't take it.  

   

  I'm new to this thought process and I'm sure the seasoned tuners are reading this and saying "Duh!"  =)

   

  Thanks again for sharing your experiences.

   

  Best wishes!

   

  Michelle Smith

  Bastrop, Texas

   


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  From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Allen Wright
  Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 3:59 PM
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Subject: left-handed tuning

   

  Michele,

   

  I like tuning left-handed on uprights (and right-handed on grands based on the same reasoning) because of the nature of the feedback I get when the pin is being pushed .

   
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