Tuning Steinway Verticals

[David's Email]

I had a customer who was interested in learning tuning.  She watched me
while
I raised my blood pressure on her 1098.  2 hours later I stumbled out the
door.
She never did go into tuning pianos...;-]

David I.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kline" <skline@peak.org>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:11 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning Steinway Verticals


> At 01:43 PM 9/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Don't ask me... my tunings still sound worse than what was on the piano
> >beforehand- and I'm not ashamed to say so.
>
> I've struggled with ONE 1098 for 3+ hours (sweating profusely all the
> while) to try to avoid having this happen -- and it was a close thing.
>
> I can't imagine dealing with a whole covey, herd, flock, whatever of them,
> day after day. I suppose in the end one learns what they will and won't
do.
>
> I find an impact hammer makes tuning them less agonizing -- still
> agonizing, mind, but less so than trying to use my standard technique on
them.
>
> Susan
>
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