[pianotech] Boston Question

[Tom Sivak]

I've tuned a few of those and never encountered a problem.  Church environments are tough---they might find that every piano they put in there has the same problem.

How often is the piano moved to the recording studio?  I assume it must be in the same building, but even if the studio was on the same floor as the church, the jostling along the way might contribute to the problem.  

Tom Sivak
Chicago


--- On Tue, 4/21/09, Avery Todd <ptuner1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Avery Todd <ptuner1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pianotech] Boston Question
> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Cc: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 2:30 PM
> List,
> 
> I just had a call about a Boston GP193 (7' ish)
> that's app. 10 yrs. old with
> a persistent tuning problem in the upper 2-3 octaves. The
> unisons won't stay
> in tune. The owner has checked with several technicians
> & one even told him
> that the problem was inherent in that age of that piano
> & that there's no
> fix for the problem that he'd heard about. Newer
> versions no longer have the
> problem, he said.
> 
> I've never run across that particular one and have
> never heard of this (I've
> tuned very few Bostons). Has anyone else? Does anyone know
> of a "fix" for
> this problem, short of a redesign/rebuild? The piano is in
> a fairly large
> church and they now are planning on getting rid of it
> because of this
> problem. They don't really want to because they love
> the touch but they use
> it in a recording studio and it's "driving them
> crazy"!
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> Avery Todd, RPT
> Houston, TX