John, I think that I missed the original post on this thread. What model Wurlitzer, and how old are they? Thanks. Horace At 02:35 AM 12/28/96 -0500, you wrote: >Sorry I have not replied to the answers I got (Dale Probst, Patrick Poulson, >Roland Kaplan) referring to the mystery pitch swings on the Wurlitzer >console, but with Christmas having just ended, things got frantic (mostly the >business!). > >In answer to your questions/suggestions: >1. No, the plate fasteners were not loose. (My practice is to *always* check >& tighten those before I tune, especially on a piano new to me.) >2. The piano had not come from a dryer climate. It had either come from here >in Sacramento, or the San Francisco Bay area. It had been in the church for >approximately three months prior to my tuning it, so was well acclimated. >3. It is located in a building with no water within 60 feet of it. >4. I use two different hygrometers (as a check) and they were both within a >couple of percentage points of each other. As a matter of fact, each time I >am at the church, the humidity is pretty much between 50%-65% year-round. The >sanctuary is actually a *permanent* tent which should be much more prone to >wide fluctuations in humidity. >5. There appears to be no seperation between pinblock and back. Other than >the lack of tuning care in the past, the piano seems to be in very good >shape. In fact, before the church got it, it was probably not used much since >day one of its original purchase. >6. The only real difference that I can find between the two tuning periods >seems to be the much lower temperature in the room the second time. As is >usual with churches, I would guess that the heat/ac is turned off when the >room is not in use. > >Whatever the reason, I am still perplexed at the difference between the two >pianos, and between the bass and treble sections. Anyway, thanks for the >ideas, and I will continue to seek help from the list as problems arise that >I can't find answers to. > >John Elving, RPT >Elving's Piano Service >Sacramento, CA (home of the 1997 CA State PTG Convention) >JElving@aol.com > > Horace Greeley Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes. Stanford University email: hgreeley@leland.stanford.edu voice mail: 415.725.9062 LiNCS help line: 415.725.4627
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