Hi all. A funny story to share: Baldwin L - in good condition with a recently retired doctor at the steering wheel. The piano was recently moved, and the doctor was concerned with the bass being in tune. I assured him the bass was no more out of tune than the rest of the piano, so I proceeded. As I was tuning, the doctor asked again about the bass and the possibility of having to 'replace the tuning pins' because they're not holding a tune'...sounds like he's been reading too much internet garbage lately..anyway, I assured him his torque was just fine..and I advised him that replacing anything regarding the pins was unnecessary. I noticed the regulation needing some work, so we made another appointment to work on it. That appointment was today. The first words out of his mouth " the bass is out of tune. Please take care of it". Well, there was a slight wobble in D#2, so I fixed that.. After taking care of the regulation problems, I asked him to sit down and play. The first thing he does is play a 10th from C1 to E2 - he tells me "that doesn't sound good"..I agreed. There is such a thing as "low interval limits". I know I didn't fully convince him that such a phenomenon exists, but he agreed he's never seen music written down there with that 10th. He did like the work that I did to the regulation - it just needed some TLC - blow distance, let-off, drop, etc. - re-surface the hammers - it played nice when I got done, but I can't do anything to a C1-E2 10th to make that sound good! -Phil Bondi(Fl)
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