"training" pianos?

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In a message dated 04/11/03 8:22:05 PM, kevin.e.ramsey@cox.net writes:

<<  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.  

  But then, what do I know? (Answer: Less and less as time goes on!)

  Tom Sivak 
 >>
<<May I suggest that the above tuner's explanation may not have been too 
much B.S. after all, but just his own effort to illustrate the necessity of 
regular tunings.
Carman Gentile RPT>>

I agree Carman. We will never know what the tech said exactly and what the 
customer says the tech said may not reflect the meaning/words as the tech 
intended, rather more than likely the customer's interpetation of those 
remarks...........

as for "If a piano is not tuned regularly in its early life, it will never 
hold a tune?" Tom there is some truth to this feeling ...perhaps :-)

 A newly strung piano has a certain preordained amount of stretching/settling 
to do based on the design/scale/climate.......so in some cases the statement 
could be true....let's say a piano is delivered new to a customer and the 
customer does not have it tuned for two years...surely a pitch raise will be 
called for......and the pitch raise will leave a basically unstable piano with 
still new strings which haven't stopped their streching/settling and a 
soundboard/bridge mechanism which has not settled in to it's final (more or less) 
position... the piano is not tuned again for two years and the same situation is in 
play...another two years, etc., etc.............gonna be an unstable piano for 
a longgggg time huh?
 Wheras the same piano receiving frequent tunings during the first two years 
will be a much more stable instrument...even after being neglected for the 
following two years...huh?
 Maybe what we really are discussing are 'unstable customers' :-)

Jim Bryant (FL)
"I have my own little world. But it's OK... they know me here."