Pitch Drop Over Years

[Kenneth Jankura]

I saw this piano yesterday.
It was only about 42% flat at A4.
Less than that in the bass (but not much).
Much closer to a semitone flat in the high treble.
I thought it would be more flat in general, and I don't know why it  
wasn't,
and though I can't say I was pleasantly surprised,
it's now tuned up and ready for anything.
One pitch raise and a "fine" tuning and I'm prescheduled to see it  
next year.
(She said she could hear the difference).
(Even though it was her husband who nagged her to get it tuned).
(After 18 years)!

Ken Jankura RPT
Newville, PA




On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Kenneth Jankura wrote:

> I just set up an appointment, new Samick in 1988. Tuned once,  
> probably 1989, and now me next week.
> I'll post the pitch drop that I find, for reference.
>
> Ken Jankura RPT
> Newville PA
>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> There was a recent tread on how much a piano will drop in pitch  
>>> over the years. This afternoon I have an appointment to tune a  
>>> piano the owner bought new 28 years ago, and she knows for a fact  
>>> (or at least that what she says) that it has never been tuned.  
>>> I'll report back.
>>>
>>> Terry Farrell
>>> 1978 Kimball spinet. Her parents bought it for her new when she  
>>> was a kid. She has owned it for 20 years. She knows it has not  
>>> been tuned in the past 20 years. She thinks that her parents had  
>>> not had it tuned in the first eight years either, but was not  
>>> sure. From the way it sounded, my guess is that they had not had  
>>> it tuned!
>>>
>>> Bass was 80 cents flat. Tenor was 100 cents flat. Treble ranged  
>>> from 130 to 180 cents flat.
>>>
>>> Two pitch raises and a "fine" tuning (as y'all know, one doesn't  
>>> fine tune an instrument like this!).
>>>
>>
>