---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Dec 7, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Leslie Bartlett wrote: > Could two days in relatively low humidity, with no > heat or air, make that kind of difference? > les > Absolutely. Les, my first year here I did my recital tunings in the mornings before 10:00 and they could be so bad by the time recitals began at 4:30 just from the climate difference caused by student classes going and coming during the day, that I would be embarrassed. Lately, as I've done tunings in the hall, the piano detunes itself drastically (I call 3-5 cents pretty drastic) before I can even get two octaves, just from having the lid open. It's detuning in the opposite direction from an overpull, so that's not the reason for it. This is a piano that given reasonably stable climate is the single most stable instrument I ever tune. When the hall gets really busy during more stable times of the year, I might have to let it go a week between tunings and it does just fine, whereas it's been getting three tunings a week the past three weeks and won't stay in tune for love nor money. I realize your situation is in a home, which would normally be more stable, but without having a way to measure what's been going on in between appointments, it is impossible to know what that piano has been going through. Do you normally tune for this customer in summer and winter? I compare our climate to yours because all too often we get what ya'll are having 1 or 2 days later. Jeff Jeff Tanner, RPT University of South Carolina ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/b1/01/98/c4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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