whoa... back

[Jay/Deb Mercier]

It wasn't that situation at all.  It had been 5 years, not 30 - which of
course is still a long time.  I failed to mention on the post that I told
her there were no guarantees after my tuning.  I did my routine explanation
of how important it is to not wait every 5 years and so on.

Thanks for the feedback,

Jay


>Hi Jay,
>How can you expect anyone who hasn't had their piano tuned in 30 years to
>know anything that could be factual about tuning.  There is no way that
>piano can hold tune after not being tuned in that long and after a pitch
>raise for 6 months.  You need to educate them while you are their the first
>time that it is just the beginning of getting the piano in shape again.
>James Grebe
>R.P.T. of the P.T.G
>pianoman@inlink.com
>Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano Peripherals in
>St. Louis, MO
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jay/Deb Mercier <mercier@minnewaska.com>
>To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 9:41 PM
>Subject: whoa...
>
>
>>
>>Get a load of this.
>>
>>I tuned for a new client a week ago.  Performed a pitch raise and tuning
>all
>>in one trip on a 30 year old Gulbransen spinet.  Okay, all done, collected
>>the money and said "See you in 6 months."  And that was that.
>>
>>It was a week later that she calls (yesterday) and says that the middle E
>>sounds funny.  I said "how does it sound funny, in what way".  She then
>>played the note over the phone.  I couldn't distinguish if the unisons
>>slipped or not, but decided I'd stop by for a quick re-tune of the E
>unisons
>>if needed.
>>
>>The funny part came next when she says "And listen to this!  Doesn't this
>>sound out of tune?  It sounds awful."  Nervously, I listened again over
the
>>phone and heard a disonant minor 2nd.  After hearing what she played
>(middle
>>E and middle F together), I assumed that she was only striking either the
E
>>or the F and one of the hammers was catching the other in the action.  At
>>this point I was thinking to myself, "how did this happen within one
week?"
>>
>>After a bit more conversation it turned out to be a first, and a funny
>>first.  She was playing both keys - E and F together and assuming that
they
>>(a minor 2nd) would sound "in tune" or sound great to her ear.
>>
>>YYEEEEEEEEOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>Now how do you explain this one?
>>
>>Jay
>>
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