Hello, I joined the list a few weeks ago. I'm not a professional tuner or technician, but a hobby pianist with a desire to learn the basics of tuning. I have a Steinway Hamburg O and I have also found a wonderful tuner/technician in my area. However, since I have realised over the years that the state of the instrument (tuning, intonation, action) affects my playing deeply, I would like to learn more about these matters. This way, I would also know more about what to ask for from my technician. Here are my questions: 1) Do you have any suggestions for books discussing piano tuning from the bottom up? I'm sort of looking for a "tuning for dummies", as well as a more advanced book discussing tuning, intonation and mechanical action. Right now, I am able to count beat waves, tune unisons and to correct individual tones in between regular tunings by my technician, but I would like to know a lot more about tuning technique and tuning schemes. (Don't worry - I would not expose my Steinway to my far-from-perfect tuning skills, I have other instruments available.) 2) What digital devices are available for computer-assisted tuning? (I read your discussion of the Verituner - it looks really interesting.) Do you think that such a device would be useful when learning tuning? 3) A friend of mine suggested that with a digital tuning device it would be possible to "save" the state of the piano (all the frequencies, or string states) to the device and then restore it almost exactly as it were months later. Is this really possible? I guess there must be something more to it, otherwise there would be a lot more digital tuning devices around. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! Best greetings, Nicholas Asplund. nicholas@gressus.se --
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