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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would suggest a little bit of caution =
when
judging someone else's tuning skills. No doubt, you are likely right =
that it was
a poor tuning. But you never know, three weeks out.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think I tune reasonable well. I tuned =
a little
console at a church a while back. They called me a week later and said =
the
pianist was complaining about the tuning. I went to check it out and =
thought
they had switched pianos - way out of tune and 25 cents flat. After =
chatting a
while longer I learned that the day after I tuned it they finally had =
their
swamp-type air-conditioning system replaced with a modern =
lower-humidity-type
air conditioning system. Aa-haaa!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My example above is extreme - no doubt. =
But my
point is who knows what environmental or other factors affected things =
over the
past three weeks. Maybe the piano was 200 cents flat before the tuning =
three
weeks ago. Maybe the cat has been jumping on the strings. Maybe they =
store their
music books on the strings.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just my 2 cents worth (or =
not).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Piannaman@aol.com
href="mailto:Piannaman@aol.com">Piannaman@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 08, 2004 =
12:21
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> anyone can buy a =
hammer and take
out an ad</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2 =
PTSIZE="10">A little
whine with dinner, <BR><BR>Yes, it's a free country. Anyone can =
hang out
a shingle and fish for business as a "Toona." <BR><BR>I =
got a
call about a hanging damper on a relatively new RX3 Kawai from a =
dealer.
I said that I'd go check it out. I got the number of the =
customer,
and it's a good hour drive to her house. I asked her if she'd =
had the
piano tuned recently. She said, "yes, but he says he doesn't do =
any of
the mechanical stuff." A hanging damper? C'mon... <BR><BR>She =
said she
was happy with his tuning, but she needed the damper fixed. =
Okay, I made
the appointment, went out today and burnished a couple of tight guide =
rail
bushings with teflon powder, then played the piano a bit to make sure
everything was sound,which it was. <BR><BR>Sounded pretty bad, =
though,
considering the three-week-old tuning. I played a particularly =
gnarly
bass octave for the lady and asked her if it sounded in tune. =
"No," she
said. I re-tuned the bass(on principal, and in hopes of getting =
her biz
in the future), then did a Tunelab check of the temperament. The =
previous guy apparently asked her if she wanted a jazz, classical, or =
folk
type temperament. I was a bit curious after a thirds test =
revealed no
proximity to ET. <BR><BR>Tunelab wasn't kind to the man's work. =
Not only
was there no specific plan in the temperament, it was on the average =
about 9
cents flat. "He said there would be some slippage, and he =
guarantees his
work for 30 days..." said the nice lady. I was doing a good job =
of
refraining from negative comments, but it was a challenge. She =
then said
that "he doesn't really like this piano, mostly because of the plastic =
in the
action." And he doesn't like the modern generation of tuners who =
can
"only tune by machine, and don't use their ears." <BR><BR>Oh well.
He's only been in biz for 25 years. <BR><BR>Dave =
Stahl
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