John - The Helpinstill pickup is not a piano, but rather an electronic pickup that can be mounted on an acoustic piano for amplification. Marshall - There is likely nothing special to do. It all depends on where they have the pickups mounted - but usually there is no significant effect on your tuning procedure. I service several pianos with these units installed and they are just little bars that sit under or over the strings. No big deal. Terry Farrell On Dec 3, 2010, at 6:15 PM, John Ross wrote: > If I remember right the Helpinstall piano was a fold up piano used > by bands. > I don't remember any particular problem. > Have them set it up for you. > It was 20 or 30 years ago that I tuned it. So if it is newer, it > might be a completely different animal. > Seems as if I had to plug the holes for the screws that held the > plate in. > John Ross > Windsor, Nova Scotia > On 2010-12-03, at 7:01 PM, Marshall Gisondi wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> I received an e-mail about a 64-key Aeolian Melodipro Piano with a >> Helpinstill pickup in it. If I agree to take this piano job, the >> tuning, is there anything that must be removed in order to access >> the strings or is this Helpinstill Pickup located in a different >> area of the piano? This is something I'm not familiar with, well >> the brand name yes, but the Helpinstill Pickup no. Any ideas would >> be great or things to be aware of. thanks >> Marshall >> ps. Today I finished up a tuning. I tuned in a living room which >> became qutie dark as I finished up. As i finised up, the customers >> kids who were home asked if ineded light. Thank the Lord for my >> vision impaired skills in tuning, who needs sight right? :-) I'm >> fortunate to have sight, but if I can't use it i'm still in ok shape. >> Marshall >> >> Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician >> Marshall's Piano Service >> pianotune05 at hotmail.com >> 215-510-9400 >> www.phillytuner.com >> Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org >> Vancouver, WA >> >> >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101203/dffc8771/attachment.htm>
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