atta boy! (Kawai RX question too)

[Ron Koval]

Hi all,

Thought I'd share a nice "atta boy" I got last night.  I followed up a 
church tuning earlier in the week by tuning the piano at the music 
director's house yesterday.  He told me that after tuning at the church, he 
got home real late because he couldn't stop playing the piano......  :)  
Yes, I used the new 'mini' temperament I posted a while back.

Actually, after some posting back and forth with Paul Bailey, a discovery 
was made that some temperaments can be "morphed" more successfully than 
others; that is changing the strength by using the same multiplier on the 
offsets.  This one works real well, so I've renamed it the Koval Variable.  
So to describe what strength, just list the offset for C.  Thus, the mini 
becomes KV1.5.

But on to the question.  The church has had some water problems.... seems 
they built on top of a spring, and the underground HVAC stuff has been 
filling with water.  Ooooooh, lots of humidity in the spring.  The Kawai 7' 
has a dampp-chaser installed, which has helped with stability, but the 
strings are getting some corrosion.  As can be imagined, the rendering of 
the strings over the felt has changed..... for the worse.  What used to be a 
dream to tune is now a real pain.  Restringing is probably in order once the 
water problem is taken care of, but is there anything that can be done now 
to make my job easier?

I've tried protek on some older Steinways, and it's helped some, anyone have 
great results with something else?

Ron Koval





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