wimblees at aol.com wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Conrad Hoffsommer <hoffsoco at luther.edu> > To: pianotech list <pianotech at ptg.org> > Sent: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 2:03 am > Subject: [pianotech] stapled hammers, revisited > > > > The contact also said she'd be calling me soon to tune at her home - a > Gulbransen spinet she'd gotten since I was last there. > > It don't get better than this... > > -- Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician > Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 > 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 > > > Back in St. Louis, I had a piano teacher call me 10 years after I tuned > her piano, because she knew it should be done every so often. It was a > Gully spinet. Guess what. That damn thing was on pitch, and just > slightly out of tune. Those Gully's hang in there. > > Wim > One can only hope... She said she got it from a friend about 10 years ago. I don't know if it's been tuned since it got moved, and it wasn't me if it HAS been. The Gully's I see around here have some of the wildest pitch changes you'd ever want. I wouldn't be surprised to see 100-200¢... -- Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
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