How would you handle..

[Farrell]

Hi Phil. Jon's advice may well be the best going. If you are going to take another crack at it though, you might try the following. I am assuming a large part of the trouble is mega false beats in the top octave or two? Isolate single strings for the piano owner and show him how a single string sounds with the false beat. Show him how a good string (if you can find one) sounds from the tenor (no wha-wha sound). Then show him how the false beat sounds alot like a poorly tuned unison. Then explain to him that the best any tuner can do with his piano is to make the upper treble sound less bad - it will never sound clear - unless a fair bit of work is done to it. Talk about CA on bridge pins or whatever, if you care to.

If he can handle it. Good luck!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@attbi.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: How would you handle..


> At 09:35 AM 8/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >a recently widowed of almost 70 years of marriage gentleman, who admits he's
> >losing his hearing, and has now called me back for a 2nd return to """fix"""
> >the top end of his 'ended it usefulness many years ago' Gulbransen Console
> >Piano?
> >
> >I am a pretty tolerant person when it comes to showing sympathy in this kind
> >of situation..however, my patience is wearing thin, and my lips are about to
> >spew something that I might soon regret.
> >
> >Help me prevent that, please.
> >
> >-Phil Bondi (Fl.)
> >tito@philbondi.com
> 
> Refer him to someone else who needs the tuning experience.
> Maybe now's a good time to start being selective...
> 
>