[Don]

Hi Les,

I always dislike following another tuner--particularly if the instrument is
one I tune regularly. I find I have to do two passes to get the piano back
"the way I like it" and a third pass to tweak it, instead of my single
pass. As I do impact style tuning etd assisted following a smooth pull
aural tuner is worst case for me. I suspect the opposite may also be true.

Just as an example I tuned a three year old Steinway B last summer
following the "regular" (and very well respected) tuner. This instrument
had been tuned 18 or 19 times, was well dealer prepped and is equipped with
a DC system. Pitch correction at A4 was 4.3 cents, worst note flat was 17
cents and worst note sharp was 57 cents. I sweated blood over that tuning,
and was less than happy with the end results.

At 10:16 PM 1/8/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>      "" or knowledge that a piano responds differently to different tuners
>such that if tuner A is followed by tuner B, the piano gets unstable until
>it settles into the style of tuning from the second tuner?  les bartlett 
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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