[pianotech] Estonia

[Leslie Bartlett]

No sage advice on how to deal with difficult pianos?????????????????????

Leslie Bartlett wrote:
> For the third time today I tuned a new Estonia, taking four hours for 
> each tuning. Every one of the pins was, first time, so tight I 
> literally thought they would twist out.  I'm wondering how you folks 
> deal with this kind of thing, and when it happens how you charge so 
> you don't cheat them nor yourselves.   In about two weeks I have to 
> tune it, another, more easily tuned Estonia, and a 9-foot Shigeru 
> together on a platform for a big program. So this one Estonia has me 
> really concerned. I just can't crack it in less than four hours. I 
> don't know if pins will loosen up or not. There are also a lot of 
> false beats in the 7th octave, a bit more than I would expect.
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> Advice appreciated.
> les bartlett
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