<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>HI Everyone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I notice that there are two schools of thought on tuning, tuning a pure octave, or tuning octaves to partials.  How does everyone here tune, a pure octave or do you add beats to it?  I spoke with someone today who said that tuning to the whole sound or note isn't accurate.  What books other than Reblitz address these two methods of tuning?  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Marshall</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jjradley@yahoo.com href="mailto:jjradley@yahoo.com">John Radley</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, August 03, 2006 9:03 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Steinway D water damage</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Hello,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have a client with a Steinway D (1962) - this piano was damaged by water from an air conditioner condenser failing over it.  The damage seems "minimal", although there are three strings F#2-G2-G#2 that will not permit tuning.  All three pins are in a straight line, and the rest of the pin block permits tuning and so far has been maintaining pitch.   I suspect that the pin block is cracked in the problem area - but hope this not to be the case.   Currently, I have a fan running to gently move air under the pin block - hoping that perhaps a good drying will help the situation (the fallboard is propped open about an inch to permit the air to enter - my thinking is that I didn't want to compromise the operation of the Dampp-chaser too much.   Also, the room is climate controlled and the temperature and RH are at reasonable levels last time I checked).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My questions: 1) is it possible that the pin block is not damaged in the affected area?   2) if it is, is there anything short of replacing the pin block that would help the situation?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This piano is in a "party room" that is no longer used extensively - so it is not in a critical use situation.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance for any thoughts or assistance.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John Radley</DIV> <P> <HR SIZE=1> Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman1/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com">Make PC-to-Phone Calls</A> to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>