<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From Terry Farrell. He is unable to post to our list.<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the info Terry.</div><div><br><div>
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<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Terry Farrell <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [pianotech] Boston GP-178</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 15, 2012 10:39:09 AM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <<a href="mailto:alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com">alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div>Hi Al,<br><br>I'm replying to you privately, but only because I can't post to the Pianotech List - my subscription got screwed up a year or two ago and they won't let me re-subscribe - so here I am a PTG member and can't interact with other fellow techs the way I'd like to. But more to the point.......<br><br>I owned a Boston GP-178 for about eight years - I think it was built in the mid-1990s. It was the nicest piano I serviced. For years I tuned it fairly regularly, every four months or so. And even then the "tuning" was really a light touch-up. I don't have whole-house humidity control, but I did have a good four-rod Dampp-Chaser dehumidier system on it (no humidifier). I live near Tampa, Florida.<br><br>One time, I guess I got lazy, I let the tuning go for about 18 months. There may have been a couple strings up in the high treble that were five cents or so out, but everything else was still within one or two cents. I had saved the tuning on my SAT at the time, so I was able to compare the tuning state note-by-note quite accurately. That piano was by far the most stable piano I have ever run across.<br><br>I had done some Stanwood-type evening out of the action touchweight and some standard but thorough maintenance on the piano - it was and very, very nice piano.<br><br>I sold it two or three years ago now to a church. I still see it every six months for a service call. The lady who plays it at the church always asks me "why did you sell such a nice piano?"<br><br>I still find it quite stable at the church, but I think with the church AC going on and off as they do (it's only on on Sundays and Wednesdays), that does take a small toll on the tuning. The DC dehumidification system is still on the piano and they have a nice heavy quilt cover on the piano.<br><br>If you care to post this to the Pianotech List, please feel free. I hope you found some of this to be of interest.<br><br>Terry Farrell<br>Farrell Piano Service, Inc.<br><br><br>On May 15, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Here I am, a year later, blown away by this piano again. A little background this time. I first tuned this piano in 2006 with a pitch raise and tuning. The piano was between -30 and -75 cents. Tuned it again 4 months later in May. I found it at 441 and tuned it there.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I've been tuning it at 440 every year in May, since then. I wrote about it last year when I found the furthest notes out at -6 and +2 cents. Returned this year to find the furthest notes out to be -3 and +2. Totally unbelievable! This piano has no humidification system, but the owner says there is a whole house humidification unit in their heating system. I find the temperature is at 70° ± 1 and the humidity is at 42% ± 2.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I just had to share this again. I find it very hard to believe. This piano is like a rock. Then there's the church with a GH1, that's out of tune after breathing near it for 5 minutes.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Al -<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">High Point, NC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br></div></div><br></div></body></html>