At 08:55 PM 09/06/2000 -0400, you wrote: >I'm having trouble with spending too much time tuning bad pianos. When I >tune my piano or some other good quality/condition piano, I can do a two >pass tuning with touch-up in 1¼ to 1½ hours (I consider even a 30 year old >Yamaha vertical as a good piano - compared to most of the worn-out poor >quality things I tune). When I tune the typical 1932 Wurlitzer grand >(original condition) or the 1958 Lester spinet or, even better, the 1965 >Aeolian spinet it commonly takes me two hours to make these things sound >less lousy than they did when I got there. I know you can only do so much >with old/worn-out/low quality pianos, but why can't I do a lousy job on >these in the same amount of time it takes me to do a good job on a decent >piano. I wouldn't worry about this much if 95%+ of the pianos I tune were >not of the old/worn-out/low quality type. > >Terry Farrell >Piano Tuning & Service >Tampa, Florida >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com I've found the hard way that if you spend two hours on these pianos they will not sound much better than had you only spent an hour on them. They are not worth the extra effort because it takes a toll on you. Save yourself for the good ones, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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