Moving from Uprights to Grands

[mps@usol.com]

Thank you group for all of the great tips and suggestions.
I don't have any Grands lined up at this moment, but I just want to 
be "prepared" when that time eventually/hopefully rolls around.

Thanks again!

Mark Montbriand



> I thought of two other things Mark. If the fallboard simply lifts out
> (most do), I always remove the fallboard - it allows easy access to 
the
> action for debris removal and it prevents you from slamming the
> fallboard shut accidentally with your tuning arm (repeatedly!). And I
> always move the bench around to the treble side of the piano (I 
straddle
> the front treble piano leg) to tune the high treble section.
> 
> Terry Farrell
>   > When someone feels he/she may be ready to begin trying 
their hand 
>   > at tuning Grand pianos, (when all they have had experience 
tuning is
> 
>   > Uprights), what should they do first?
>   > 
>   > 
>   > Thank you very much
>   > 
>   > Mark
>   > Montbriand
  > Montbriand