[pianotech] tuning cold pianos

[Farrell]

All I can offer you is moral support Barbara - and the suggestion that you might want to explain beforehand why the just-tuned pianos are so far out of tune!

On a related topic, I wonder who tuned the piano used outside at Barack Obama's inauguration. Must have been a real challenge - those were a few high-end performers on the stage - and the temperature sure looked COLD - and I noticed the sun shining directly on the piano (oh my!).

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Barbara Richmond 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:42 PM
  Subject: [pianotech] tuning cold pianos


  Howdy,



  A colleague and I are going to be tuning pianos for the Illinois Music Educators Association All-State Convention.  Of course, the venues will store the pianos in not very well heated storage rooms, where we will have to tune.  It's been awhile, but I remember that stage lights make pianos go flat, so if these pianos are cold when we get to them, should we tune high (if so, how much?) and assume they'll fall in pitch when they warm up?  Will the treble and bass sections change at the same rate?   I can't count on the pianos having been tuned recently.



  This gig is always <interesting>...    I do it for the money.  :-o



  Thanks,



  Barbara Richmond, RPT

  near Peoria, IL

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