Yes, I think that even if a piano has been neglected in its first few years, it CAN be "saved" and brought back to the righteous path with regular service. Carman At 09:58 PM 11/4/2003 -0500, JIMRPT@aol.com wrote: >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."
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