lazy RPT

[Farrell]

Just a thought here David. I have found it can be dangerous to be too critical of other tuners work in some situations. Like tuning. You never know what kind of shape the piano was in prior to the last tuning. Could it have been a period of high humidity prior to the other guy tuning, and then real low humidity following his tuning (maybe the first time of the year the heat got turned on)? You mention it was a new piano. Could this piano be 6 months old and this guy gave a note-flat piano its first tuning - not unlikely for it to drop in pitch as he was driving away from the site? I tuned a piano in a church a couple months ago (little junky console & small pitch raise). The guy called me up a couple days later and said the pianist was complaining about the tuning. I went out to check it out and the little junker was 25 cents flat! THEN I found out that the piano was moved from one building that was having air conditioning problems to the new building the morning of the day I tuned it!

You may well be right that the other dude did a bad job. I am often quite sure about cruddy work that I see. But I guess you never know either. Just something to consider.

Terry  Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andersen" <bigda@gte.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 5:05 AM
Subject: Re: lazy RPT


> >It seemed obvious to me that he only did the middle register.  He was her 
> >tuner for over 15 years.  It amazes me that this guy cared so little for his 
> >faithful client.  He must have been on a tight schedule that day, but 
> >still...is that an excuse?
> >
> >His card was in the piano with the RPT logo.
> 
> Another one:  I just followed up on a new piano, C7, that had been tuned 
> a week prior; belongs to a quite famous and talented writer, pianist and 
> arranger; the man who tuned it, I found out later, has a good reputation 
> and has been in leadership in PTG for a number of years. He tuned with 
> some kind of an ETD; I was, at first, admiring his tuning: "pretty damn 
> good for a robot...." <g>; then  got out my Jurassic Period Tone 
> Generator (ye olde fork).  Guess what?  The piano was 12-14 cents flat!
> I couldn't believe it.  Don't them machines tell ya whut pitch you 
> a-tunin' on?
> 
> All I could figure was the dealer only paid him for a tuning, and, by 
> gawd that's all he was going to do.
> Incomprehensible to me.
> 
> David A.
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