[pianotech] Pitch change, etc.

David Ilvedson ilvey at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 6 14:47:55 MDT 2010


Thanks Kent...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Kent Swafford" <kswafford at gmail.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 4/6/2010 11:01:24 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Pitch change, etc.


>I service 3 pianos with Ron's soundboards. I can't "prove" the claim that these 
>pianos stay in tune better than other pianos, but my observation is that they do 
>indeed; unisons stay clean, and pitch changes are more uniform across the scale.

>Kent


>On Apr 6, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

>> David Ilvedson wrote:
>>> "For instance, I've noticed, and it's been mentioned by others, that my RC&S 
>rebuilds with epoxy laminated bridge caps stay in tune better than everything 
>around them."
>>> How many pianos do you have out there, Ron?   Sounds a wee bit 
>unsubstantiated...to me.
>> 
>> I don't know, a dozen or so of these. It's what I see in the pianos I tune locally, 
>and what techs I've done pianos for tell me elsewhere. It's an observation I find 
>interesting, not something I'm ramming down your throat.
>> Ron N


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