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<div>Hi Duaine, I aim for the "wow" factor for all the pianos I see... No, really!</div><div><br></div><div>My piano teachers must've taken on a bunch of new students, because I've just finished a few weeks</div><div>of new clients - many with pianos just as you describe - the worst being a 200 cent pitch raise...</div><div><br></div><div>They (mostly) know that the first visit is "clearing out the barn" - so there's less expectations in play. Still, by using</div><div>the methods I've outlined (no traditional aural skills required), partnered with the Verituner running custom styles, I </div><div>expect that the tuning calculation (if the piano were stable enough) would get me to a "wow" tuning.</div><div><br></div><div>Painless partnering with a glorified calculator. You can apply the same techniques to get better tunings using any of</div><div>the ETD's that measure inharmonicity and let you alter the stretch...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ron Koval</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>OK, enough with the "wow" factor. Where would you use such tunings ?</div><div><br></div><div>Symphonies, maybe, BUT, the piano is only one instrument in the rest of them.</div><div><br></div><div>For the average Joe like me, that tunes for home owners - who usually new to old beaters, and churches, who almost </div><div>never, have solos anymore - they are in some sort of a praise band.</div><div><br></div><div>So, the "wow" factor must be for those "elite" customers - who really give a damn about how a piano sounds - Right ?</div><div><br></div><div>Which I would probably refuse to tune for them............</div><div><br></div><div>Just sayin'</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Duaine Hechler</div><div>Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ</div><div>Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding</div><div>Reed Organ Society Member</div><div>Florissant, MO 63034</div><div>(314) 838-5587</div> </div></body>
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