[pianotech] Return visit

[Joe Goss]

Take along a copy of the responses you get to this discussion.

If you use an ETD, tune the first note of the tenor. One string only is 
necessary. Then open the door or windows so that there is a change in the 
rooms heat or humidity. Wait 5 minutes and show the resulting change of 
pitch.

Take your tuning fork and tune the ETD to it. Then place it in the fridge 
for 30 seconds with the ice. and show the resulting raise in pitch on the 
ETD. And then under the arm for good measure. And then the resulting flat 
reading.
Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Return visit


> Hi Rick,
>
> If you have a history of the relative humidity and the pitch changes
> associated with it, then show her what is going on.
>
> She is committing "pianocide" with her stove.
>
> At 03:49 PM 1/17/2010 -0500, you wrote:
>>List,
>>Client calls today (piano teacher) , and says "My piano doesn't
>>right". It was tuned 10/30/09, Kawai kg-2.
>>We have just emerged from a two week bitter cold snap here in the NE,
>>and many pianos have been 40+ cents flat that usually are not that bad
>>in past years.
>>She has forced air and a wood stove about two feet from the piano.
>>She isn't buying my reply that the weather etc. is to blame. Of course
>>she is an hour away, and I've arrainged to get to her next week.
>>She is a once a year tuning; I could use some advice on how to handle
>>this situation.
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano
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> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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