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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joey, did you check the string =
leveling? That
would be my first guess.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=joey@onkeypianotuning.com
href="mailto:joey@onkeypianotuning.com">Joey Recker</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> Sunday, December 07, 2003 =
6:18
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> eee-ahhh</DIV>
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<DIV><LABEL id=HbSession SessionId="4068577561"></LABEL><SPAN
class=656321001-08122003></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT
=
size=2>Tuned a piano at a church in =
Plains last week. I was extremely sat=
isfie<SPAN
class=656321001-08122003>d with the results (they turn the HVAC off =
all week
and it hadn't been tuned in a
=
week). </SPAN>Tonight after church the pia=
nist mentioned to me how much better i=
t sounded, but <SPAN
class=656321001-08122003>commented that one note sounded =
"funny".
</SPAN></FONT></FONT><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT =
face=Arial
size=2>Initially, I didn't hear the problem... (I think =
because the
strings are definately in tune and I was listening for beats). =
But after
a few moments I detected what she is talking about. =
When you
first hit the key, it quickly goes "eee-ahhh". Every other note =
just
says "ahh" (yeah, I know this sounds stupid, but I can't think of any =
other
way to describe it). It happens very quickly and is almost =
undetectable,
but SHE noticed it, so it is now important to me. It's like the =
note has
two syllables instead of just one pure syllable.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT face=Arial size=2>It =
quickly gets to
the ahhh... and there are no further beats in the tone when played by =
itself
or when checking octaves so I don't think it's what we would normally =
call a
false beat. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT face=Arial =
size=2>Sorry if this
doesn't explain things properly... but does anyone have any =
suggestions
of things I should check? I don't know where to
start.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=656321001-08122003><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Joey</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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