[pianotech] Tuning

[John Formsma]

I tend to agree with Dean here ... at least from a financial standpoint. A
Winter spinet is pretty easy to tune.  There are only about 20 bass strings,
right?  And no matter how one tunes it, it will  still sound bad.  So just
get in there, do the fastest and best you can do, and be done with it.  The
easiest tuning in the world 'cause you don't hafta fuss over it.  :-)
I'd work the service call into two service calls.  The first appointment
raises the pitch to A440 in two rough tuning pitch raises.  The second
service call does the fine tuning.  Should be around 1.75 hours total, and
easily would get $200 or more.  I once worked one of these "unwanted" jobs
as an exchange for some new musicians earplugs.  The audiologist and I
simply swapped out. I was happy, and he was happy.  But that's another
story.

>From the standpoint of enjoying it, no ... I would not enjoy tuning the
little beast.  But I didn't enjoy tuning a rebuilt Steinway beast today
either. :-)  All that capo and duplex noise, and inconsistent pin tightness
-- ick!

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JF

On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Dean May <deanmay at pianorebuilders.com>wrote:

>  Me, I'm not too proud to tune such a piano. It keeps my family fed. That
> would probably be around a $200+ service call. I'm not so rich that it
> wouldn't matter to me.
>
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> *Dean*
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> *From:* pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] *On
> Behalf Of *wimblees at aol.com
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 02, 2008 9:57 PM
> *To:* pianotech at ptg.org
> *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] Tuning
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>
> Avery
>
> Let me guess, You told her the tuning would be free because you need the
> experience, and since it's out in the country, you would enjoy the ride.
>
> Wim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avery Todd <ptuner1 at gmail.com>
> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:57 am
> Subject: [pianotech] Tuning
>
> List, I just got this email. Guess what my response was? LOL
>
>
>
> >We live in the Spring, Texas area and am looking for price quote to do an
> in-home tuning of a 1978 Winter Spinet upright which has >not been tuned
> since it's original delivery date, 30 years ago.
>
>  It's too far away from where I live anyway!
>
> Avery
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JF
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