[pianotech] high and outside

[Duaine Hechler]

On 10/28/2012 01:19 AM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
> Not meant to start something......
>
> However, I can see - no - way an ETD can do such a tuning. It almost - had - to
> be an aural tuning.
>
> Or the piano reacted that bad.
>
> Duaine
>
> The other, and more probably reason, Duaine, is that the tuner using an ETD forgot to switch to the next note, and 
> tuned the whole bass section with the note set one or two higher. But because the tuner couldn't, or didn't, check 
> his/her tuning aurally, didn't know the piano was being tuned wrong.
> Wim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net>
> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sat, Oct 27, 2012 6:37 pm
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] high and outside
>
> On 10/27/2012 11:16 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> >
> > This morning, I tuned (at) a Whitney console. The lady said the last tuner had
> tuned it twice a couple of years ago. I
> > assumed it had needed a pitch raise. Inside, the card indicated a February
> 2010 date, and RH reading of 34%. I
> > stripped it up and found the center about 30¢ sharp! I couldn't see anything
> good coming of me trying to explain that
> > I needed to do a pitch lowering on a piano that had been pitch raised 2-1/2
> years ago, so I just pressed on.
> >
> > As I went over the piano, I found the bass (all of it) slightly flat, the
> center 30¢ sharp, F-5 to F-6 almost on
> > pitch, suddenly going to well over a half semitone sharp from there on up.
> Bizarre! There is no way this piano was
> > anywhere near being in an acceptable state of tune when the last tuner left
> it. The uniformity of the aberrations
> > indicated that what was done was intentional, but I saw no sense at all to the
> pattern.
> >
> > Even being all wild strings in the top half, which is characteristic of the
> breed, it sounded a whole lot better when
> > I left it. Better than she's ever heard it, in fact. If she calls next year as
> I suggested, we'll both win.
> >
> > The kind of work that's being done out there scares me.
> > Ron N
> >
> Not meant to start something......
>
> However, I can see - no - way an ETD can do such a tuning. It almost - had - to
> be an aural tuning.
>
> Or the piano reacted that bad.
>
> Duaine
>
> -- 
> Duaine Hechler
> Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
> (314) 838-5587 /dahechler at att.net  <mailto:dahechler at att.net>  /www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com  <http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com>
> Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years
>

Naughty.....Naughty....."top posting"

As to the other, plausible...........

Duaine

-- 
Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
(314) 838-5587 / dahechler at att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
Home & Business user of Linux - 12 years