Ron, Thanks. I've offered to come and tune it. Haven't heard back yet! LOL That's been my thought too. I'm curious enough to drive that far to do it. He'll pay me but it's still a pain to drive that far! Avery On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: > Avery Todd wrote: > >> 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 >> > > > I tune one Boston regularly that tends to do this, that takes me an extra > 15 or 20 minutes to tune because of it. It's a rendering problem. Some of it > seems to be at the capo/counter bearing, and some through the bridge. It > takes me two passes through the top third, doing everything I can to insure > strings are stable, only to have some (too many) move slightly after the > first pass. I'd suggest that they have someone in the area that's known for > leaving unusually stable tunings give it a shot. > Ron N > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090423/79014b45/attachment.html>
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