[pianotech] PR follow up

[Terry Farrell]

Yeah. What was that?

Terry Farrell

On Aug 29, 2009, at 9:33 AM, Ken & Pat Gerler wrote:

> I also always give the customer the information about pitch raise.  
> In my 36+ years of tuning after a Bachelors' Degree in Music, I  
> always promote ear training and a piano not to standard pitch will  
> not do that.  If I am called on a piano that I have never tuned, a  
> large percentage of the time I will find them at least 30c flat. If  
> the new owner or situation says the piano is going to see lots of  
> use "now", I will recommend a follow up tuning is a few weeks.
>
> Just after I started tuning in St. Louis (around '77/'78) I had a  
> situation where the piano was purchased for the child at age 7, took  
> lessons for a little while and then quit. Now the child was a Senior  
> in High School and begged the mother to tune the piano. Situation  
> above. Two weeks later I went back; the piano had dropped a couple  
> of cents and the mother said now she had to chase the child away  
> from the piano.
>
> I have also had the opportunity to go back to a piano I tuned some  
> 18 to 20 earlier with no one else called to tune the piano in the  
> mean time and found them only 10 to 15 cents low. So I know a lot of  
> the pianos I find way out were never brought to pitch when tuned.  
> BUT, to counter that I have also had some PSOs that every 6 months  
> would be either 50c sharp or 50c flat as the seasons changed.
>
> Enough Saturday Morning chatter.
>
> Ken Gerler RPT 631