Did you ever hear this one?

[Robin Blankenship]

I've heard that, too, and usually from the same customers, time after time. My hunch is that they are trying to obtain the same sound as before and make some unconscious adjustment in their technique which makes the action feel different to them. The effect can be very real indeed to them.

Robin Blankenship
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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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