Subject: RE: Very interesting question-- I've encountered maybe two pianos over 30 years that were about a minor third flat (about 300 cents), and they had come from humid climates to a dry one, so the soundboard lost much crown. I've found individual strings much flatter, of course, due to loose tuning pins. --David Nereson, RPT -----Original Message----- Subject: Very interesting question-- I wonder what the limit is as to how far flat a piano will go if it is never tuned. Jesse Gitnik For what it's worth: my last call was a "just a tuning" call. They ushered me to the piano and said their son is showing some interest and asked to have it tuned because it doesn't sound like his friends' piano. "We bought it new, locally, but never had it tuned." It's a 15 year old W.W. Kimball, their cheapest model, looking like new inside and out. It sounded even without a lot of wild unisons. I gave them my "up to pitch" pitch, which they declined. So, I tuned it where it was, to A425, going over the middle octaves twice to bring them in tune.finished in less than an hour. This time of year in S.E Minnesota one sees a lot of FLAT pianos, well below A425, that get quasi-regular tunings. Go figure. Paul C -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070131/868a5656/attachment.html
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