---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Yes, I've heard this and while the thought is taken to ridiculous ends here there is a certain sense to the idea. Certainly a piano that is tuned often in its starting years gains a certain stability that is lacking otherwise. At least thats been my experience, and I've had plenty enough opportunity to compare similiar pianos. There is a lot that settles in over time with 35 to 50 thousand pounds pulling at it, not to mention the composite nature of this stress. That being said... its a looooong stretch indeed to declare a piano worthless because it hasnt recieved proper attention in its early life. One of the absolute worst rip-off attempts I've seen through the years went along these lines... 86 year old widow, 3 year old Sauter upright.... piano tech told her she'd destroyed her piano because she'd let the pitch drop. (turned out to be 6 cents flat). He offered her a few hundred dollars to take it off her hands. Poor old gal was beside herself, but had the sense to call another tech and check. Pretty low stuff. Anyways... I believe a good start in a pianos life definatly helps, but its certainly a long ways from alpha/omega. Cheers RicB Tvak@aol.com wrote: > 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.) > > 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. > > 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 -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4a/a2/8e/3a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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