<!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 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good reply!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I May..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will be tuning the concert piano for = the 75'th reunion of the Auburn Knights Orchestra. The rental piano will be at the = site on the 26'th or 27'th. I will check in early on the 28'th and find out = what we have and set it up..:-) Starting at 1PM it will go through 8 hours of rehearsal/play time by some heavy NYC,LA,and Regional Players. On the = 29'th it will go through 6 hours of R/H time and 4 hours+ of digitally recorded concerts...4 era bands. On the 30'th there is only 4 hours R/H time and = another 4 era band concerts. Urr..Uh..after hours the jazz heads play 'till = dawn. I have cut my playing down to only one band. ( I hold the record for playing on = all 20'th Century bands,at one time or another,as well as the most = at one reunion..5). It is an impossible task with the scheduling,daily set ups = by the dear ladies who collect the gate, and old friends.Not to mention the = inevitable people who want to know everything 'they' want to know about pianos!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tune the piano twice daily to the = best of my ability,and then enjoy my friends...once in awhile the late night crew = lets me join in and play a tune or two on my bass trombone (in the low regester) = to check my improvements..:-) I get my room and dues comped for = this..:-(  ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>See auburnknights.com   if = you wish</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hubert</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Opelika</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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="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> Monday, July 04, 2005 = 2:00 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Tuning Stabilty Question</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Yes.  <BR><BR>David = Ilvedson<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: Robert Finley <RFINLEY@RCN.COM><BR>To: <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 13:26:19 = -0400<BR>Subject: Tuning Stabilty Question<BR><BR> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to ask your = opinion about piano tuning stability. Last weekend we finished our international = piano competition in Boston. It began on Wednesday June 22nd. I was the = director of the competition and had a lot of administrative work to = do.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A couple of weekends before the = competition I made several visits to the college and tuned four of the practice = pianos, because last time in 2003 they were badly out of tune. They hadn't = been tuned since January, the beginning of the semester, and I thought I would = save our organization some money. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The pianos were very old (looked as = if they were from the early 1900s), and consisted of two Steinway Bs, a Steinway A, = and  a Baldwin Hamilton Studio console.  They didn't = seem to have been looked after very well. There were paper clips, pins, = dust and other debris inside. Some of the tuning pins were rather loose. The = music stand on a Steinway B was broken and in terrible shape. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I used the SAT III to  to tune = them. I applied strong blows to equalize the tension in the strings, and = lighter listening blows to check the resultant tuning. When I finished = each piano, there was a very big improvement, and I could have given a = recital on each of them. The notes had a bell like clarity, although the = tone of the Baldwin upright was rather mediocre. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>During the competition, the practice pianos were in use from 8 am until 11 pm each day = by contestants. They practiced such things as the Prokofiev Toccata, = Rachmaninoff Etudes, Liszt etc, and they began to go out of tune. The air = conditioning in the building cycled on and off during the night and day. They were in = quite out of tune by the end of the competition. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question is, would you typically = expect pianos to go out of tune under these circumstances or should they have held = their tuning better? I know it is difficult to say without seeing the = pianos, but I just wondered what your opinion might be.  I'm not sure what else = I could have done to make the pianos hold their tuning longer. I couldn't go = in to re-tune them because they were constantly in use by the contestants = from morning to late at night. I was also overloaded with work, running the = competition, so I wouldn't have had the time anyway. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your thoughts and a happy = July 4th. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert Finley</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>