[pianotech] high and outside

[Piano Boutique]

Another thing is that if the piano went for enough years without being tuned and needed a double tuning, who knows how it reacted.   Now 20 years later in all kinds of conditions, anything may happen.

William



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: tnrwim at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] high and outside


  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

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Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ - Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
(314) 838-5587 / dahechler at att.net / www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com
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