Remembering Steinway grand sizes

[Ron Nossaman]

> I have yet to have the pleasure. What wonderful characteristics conspire 
> to make the otherwise lovely (I'm sure) piano untunable?
> 
> Terry Farrell

They look fine, and sound/feel familiar enough. The tuning 
pins are just way past obscenely tight. I'm a big enough guy 
to drag the piano around the room by the tuning hammer if it 
seemed like a good idea at the time, but finding that 
necessary just to turn the pins is abusive, and it's a total 
crap shoot as to where the string will end up after you've 
removed the hammer. Then there's the snapping and popping... 
They turn a 45 minute tuning into an hour+ tuning that sounds 
like a 25 minute tuning. The factory tuners must look like 
fiddler crabs.

Ron N