Did you ever hear this one?

[David Nereson]

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  I have at least 2 or 3 customers who could swear that the
touch improves after a good tuning, even though I did absolutely
no mechanical work - -just a good tuning. Anybody out there ever
hear this from a customer?
  Is it purely psychological or are there ghosts and goblins at
work?

  Jesse Gitnik
  NYC
  Tech. since 1980

  Yes, I've heard that once or twice, but usually after doing a
pitch raise and tuning (much pounding and test blows) on a piano
that hadn't been played much at all prior to the tuning.  Maybe
it helped ease keys slightly or get center pins moving again
that were starting to freeze up with vertigris.  (??)

      On a related note, I had a piano major say she could tell
when somebody had been pounding on the piano because the touch
was different.  I didn't say anything.  She had some other
theories that to me were malarkey.

   --David Nereson, RPT
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