..stability issue..

[David M. Porritt]

Rook:

No piano used professionally is going to stay "in tune" for 2 months.  Two weeks would be more like it.

Do you use a VTD?  I've found since using one here at the school that pianos are a little more stable since they are tuned exactly the same each time.  The temperament is the same, the stretch is the same.  Each string goes back to the same exact tension it had the last time it was tuned since I tune them to the same tuning file.  I'm sure some would disagree, but that's certainly been my experience here.

dave

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On 11/20/00 at 8:51 AM Phil Bondi wrote:

>Good Morning.
>
>There are 2 Baldwin "R"'s in a restaurant that I have been trying to
>maintain as a customer..frankly, I am getting frustrated with the complaints
>that they won't stay in tune.
>
>I have:
>
>seated all strings.
>beat the heck out of all strings while tuning.
>added DC to both.
>tried to educate the player..some people just don't want to listen or hear
>what's being said..he is not a 'hard' player.
>
>..still the same complaints..one piano is being played 6 nights a week while
>the other is used sparingly..it is the complaint that Piano#1 goes out of
>tune within a week of me being there and Piano#2 lasts 2 weeks..now please
>understand that 'out of tune' means, to this person, that some unisons are
>starting to drift.
>
>Both pianos are scheduled to be tuned every 2 months.
>
>The restaurant's climate is not ideal, and that is why I suggested the DC
>for both..but it doesn't seem to be adding any stability to my work.
>
>I have questioned my own 'technique'..but only with this customer, which
>makes me think that it's not my technique preventing these pianos from
>staying in tune since I don't have this complaint with any other customers
>that tune as frequently as this one does.
>
>Does anyone have a suggestion for improved stability, based on what's been
>said here?
>
>At wits end,
>Rook




David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275