Speaking of cold pianos.....(with a bright sun shining on it...) I wonder who tuned the Steinway piano for the inauguration yesterday and how they tuned it??? I heard Yo Yo Ma used a "special" cello...not his strad (good move!) Anyone know?? Paul Don <pianotuna at yahoo.com> Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 01/21/2009 04:24 PM Please respond to pianotuna at yahoo.com; Please respond to pianotech at ptg.org To PTG <pianotech at ptg.org> cc Subject [pianotech] cold pianos Hi Barbara, For every two degrees F difference between the storage and the stage tune about 1 cent sharp. The lights will still make the pianos go miserably out of tune. I don't have a lot of data for this yet--mostly what I have garnered from tuning in rural Churches where no one turned on the heat for me. Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat mailto:pianotuna at yahoo.com http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 306-539-0716 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090121/95fa0b24/attachment-0001.html>
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