curved church floors

[Sid Blum]

Seems to me if the grand is sitting on three legs 
the angle of the floor should not make a 
difference,

Unless it is quite extreme and the heavy bass falls out of the piano...


>Hi,
>I have this notion that regardless of the piano 
>being a grand or upright that in these old 
>churches with curved or bowled floors the piano 
>is in constant flex.  In this one particular 
>church they had a very small grand and it was 
>impossible to tune on this floor.
>They later purchased a 7 foot quality grand and 
>a rolling stage was built for it.  It was a 
>steel framed platform on hydraulic legs with 
>locking wheels some engineering parishoners got 
>together to build it and it worked.
>
>Now the new music director decides he wants the 
>piano off the stage so there is more freedom to 
>move it.  I guess he couldn't imagine how the 
>key board would slope to the left and the bench 
>may not be on the same pitch as the piano.  You 
>feel like your on a listing ship, and The Piano 
>Misbehaved (is now unstable) when I tuned it 
>last.
>
>I had recommended that they leave things alone. 
>I'm sure that when these churches were built 
>that no one considered they would want to 
>install a piano and that it might become the 
>center of their musical devotion.
>
>I had recommended in the first place, with the 
>small piano that they level the floor by 
>building a carpeted platform to just take the 
>curve out of the floor in the centre front of 
>the church.   My feeling is that no piano can 
>take this kind of twisting and flexing and stay 
>tuned.
>
>Anybody have any ideas.
>
>Jessica Masse
>
>
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