While that's always something to consider, likely not the case here as the interior environments of these ships are super-duper stable. As dean pointed out, it could be a vent, but then again, the AC is going 24/7, and even if a vent was blowing on it - its always blowing on it! I tune the pianos on three cruise ships in the Port of Tampa and the piano bar pianos are indeed the ones that go "out of tune" more than the others - mostly unisons, but I attribute that to these pianos being pounded on when the pianist "gets in the groove" - and the scantily clad women start dancing on the piano lid........ But maybe it is a humidity issue - things probably get pretty steamy in there some nights. And I wonder how much water is in a margarita - pouring a few of those over the soundboard and tuning pin field likely doesn't help anything either...... :-( I would also like Ted to quantify his question as Dean asked. Every once in a while a piano will have a unison 20, 30, 40 cents off - this on a piano that was just tuned two to four weeks prior. I can only assume in such a case that some gal is high heels was dancing on the strings or some drunk pianist whipped out his student tuning lever and had a go at it. Terry Farrell On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote: > Ted, > > You could get one of these data loggers and attach it to the piano > for a while to see if it's a humidity/temp issue: > > http://www.thermoworks.com/products/logger/usb_loggers.html > > Don Mannino has used them at Kawai (it was posted here and featured > in the Journal.) I've used mine a number of times for things piano > related and not piano related. > > Barbara Richmond, RPT > near Peoria, Illinois > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ted Simmons" <tsimmons4 at cfl.rr.com> > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:04:28 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada > Central > Subject: [pianotech] PIANO BAR TUNING > > I tune pianos for a cruise ship and they are puzzled about the piano > bar piano which goes out of tune readily. Other pianos > On the ship of the same model (Yamaha G2) are relatively stable and > require minor changes. The piano is used 3 hours each > night. I tune the piano every 2 weeks. What can I tell the music > director? > > Ted Simmons > Viera, Florida -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100213/3843f919/attachment-0001.htm>
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