This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Carman Gentile=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 2:04 AM Subject: "training" pianos?=20 see bottom: ...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...=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 My own experience is that the more regularly a piano is tuned, the = more stable the tuning remains between service appointments. It is as = though the instrument has formed it's tuning the same way a pair of = shoes forms to our feet. How this happens exactly, I do not know but we = do know that there are tremendous forces occurring within a piano, even = when it is at rest. The tension of the strings against the bridges and = soundboard, the forces between the soundboard edges and case rim, and = the influences of changes in temperature and humidity all combine = (somehow) to affect the piano's anatomy and physiology. It seems to me = that when we add our own influence to the string tensions when tuning, = this has the effect of "training" or molding the instrument to stabilize = more readily to its correct tuning. I have not found the right choice = of words to use to explain this to my clients.=20 I have used the analogy that a neglected piano is like an = ill-mannered child with a strong will. It takes repeated corrective = measures to get it to stay on the right path. =20 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 Redwood Chapter=20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- Hello Carman There's another aspect to this as well: A piano reacts best to being = tuned by ONE tuner. Another tuner stepping in there CAN destabilise a = piano by the way he/she tunes. Yes? :-) Regards Michael G (UK ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/19/32/7c/73/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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