[pianotech] New Asian piano that will not hold a tuning

[Gerald Groot]

That was also my first thought too.  You might want to seat the bridges too
while you're at it..  

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of John Formsma
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 6:49 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] New Asian piano that will not hold a tuning

 

This was my first thought also.  The few new pianos I see for their first
tuning are tuned A442 (or higher sometimes) to allow for this pitch drop. If
the first tuning lowered the pitch to A440 instead of keeping it sharp, it
might have made the pitch drop worse than normal.

 

Maybe tune it another time before you pronounce it has structural problems?

 

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JF

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Paul T Williams
<pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:


It sounds to me like a piano that wasn't tuned very many times before
leaving the factory, nor tuned well in the store.  New strings go out of
tune quite quickly when new. 





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