At 08:51 AM 2/6/96 -0700, you wrote: > Subject: Time: 9:52 AM > OFFICE MEMO Re tuning instability Date: 2/6/96 > >John- If your humidity is stable, and pins are not loose, I would think you >should be able to achieve a solid tuning. I don't think plate fasteners, >bridge/string anomalies, etc. are your problem. Make sure that all people >tuning the piano are committed to strenuous test blows. Here at Oberlin, we >quantitate test blows on the "Strichter Scale" of one to five, with number >five test blows being necessary to stabililize a piano for a weekend Liszt >festival. On our concert pianos, our motto is, "If you aren't committed to >stabilizing it, don't change it." Also, if you haven't broken strings >occasionally with test blows, you haven't reached grade five on the "Strichter >Scale". > >Ken Sloane, Oberlin Conservatory > And AMEN to all that Horace
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