This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Tom,=20 That is indeed a line of BS. I have had several pianos under my = hands that had been in the same condition. What I would do is to tune = them to A440 every six months, or sooner, and after a year and a half, = they start to stabilise, some of them, like a Yamaha U1 that springs to = mind, hardly need tuning after a few years. I use a SAT, and after = doing a lot of checks to get the stretch numbers which fit my tuning = style and the pianos needs, I will lightly write them in small numbers = on one of the key sticks. ( They can easily be erased, if desired.) = After that, the piano gets every note put right back where it was = before. I usually go over a piano twice, to get it as stabile as = possible anyway, and after doing this for a while, it just seems to stay = there.=20 Hope that helps. Kevin. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Tvak@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 5:08 PM Subject: "training" pianos? List I recently tuned a 3 year old Baldwin console. The client told me = that thier piano didn't stay in tune for very long and that the previous = tuner had told her that it was probably because she didn't have it tuned = regularly when she first got it. (This piano had not been tuned for = over a year after they first got it.) =20 Their tuner said that it hadn't been "trained" properly, and it would = never hold a tune very well. Now I had never heard of this and I told her so. The piano was = certainly out of tune when I first got there, but it had been about 9 = months since it was last tuned, so there was nothing out of the ordinary = as far as I could see. The pins were Baldwin-tight. I did my best to make my tuning as stable as possible, and I'll have = to wait till they call for another tuning before I'll find out if there = is an actual problem or not. =20 But, has anyone ever heard of such a thing? If a piano is not tuned = regularly in its early life, it will never hold a tune? I can't fathom = that this could be true...sounds like a line of BS. =20 But then, what do I know? (Answer: Less and less as time goes on!) Tom Sivak ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b7/42/88/64/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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