Had a unusual request from a customer to tune his old German piano to the honky tonky sound. I was just tempted to tell him just play it how it is even though it was one step flat! It's too old to raised due to not so tight pins and 100 year old strings. I remember about 40 years ago when Winifred Atwell was the queen of the honky tonk sound she came to Adelaide South Australia where I had the job of checking the tuning of her straight strung English piano plus the Steinway O she hired from the firm I worked for. I think that the method was to tune the piano normally and then let one string down for the vibration affect. With the advent of PDAs nowadays I am wondering how many cents sharp or flat the third string is changed? It would made it more even if I tune the piano first then change RCT setting for that detuned string to - +10 or whatever. I don't think that the bass strings are detuned. Has anybody amongst the old timers on this list remember tuning for this artist? Thanks Robin Stevens ARPT South Australia PS A youtube search has many clips of Winifred Atwell playing. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110223/ad519272/attachment.htm>
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