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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> That is indeed a =
line of
BS. I have had several pianos under my hands that had been in the =
same
condition. What I would do is to tune them to A440 every six months, or =
sooner,
and after a year and a half, they start to stabilise, some of them, like =
a
Yamaha U1 that springs to mind, hardly need tuning after a few =
years. I
use a SAT, and after doing a lot of checks to get the stretch numbers =
which fit
my tuning style and the pianos needs, I will lightly write them in small =
numbers
on one of the key sticks. ( They can easily be erased, if desired.) =
After that,
the piano gets every note put right back where it was before. I usually =
go over
a piano twice, to get it as stabile as possible anyway, and after doing =
this for
a while, it just seems to stay there. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Hope that =
helps.</FONT></DIV>
<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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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Tvak@aol.com href="mailto:Tvak@aol.com">Tvak@aol.com</A> =
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<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> Tuesday, November 04, =
2003 5:08
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> "training" =
pianos?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT face=Geneva =
color=#000000
size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">List<BR><BR>I recently tuned a 3 year =
old Baldwin
console. The client told me that thier piano didn't stay in tune =
for
very long and that the previous tuner had told her that it was =
probably
because she didn't have it tuned regularly when she first got =
it. (This
piano had not been tuned for over a year after they first got =
it.)
<BR><BR>Their tuner said that it hadn't been "trained" properly, and =
it would
never hold a tune very well.<BR><BR>Now I had never heard of this and =
I told
her so. The piano was certainly out of tune when I first got =
there, but
it had been about 9 months since it was last tuned, so there was =
nothing out
of the ordinary as far as I could see. The pins were
Baldwin-tight.<BR><BR>I did my best to make my tuning as stable as =
possible,
and I'll have to wait till they call for another tuning before I'll =
find out
if there is an actual problem or not. <BR><BR>But, has anyone =
ever heard
of such a thing? If a piano is not tuned regularly in its early =
life, it
will never hold a tune? I can't fathom that this could be =
true...sounds
like a line of BS. <BR><BR>But then, what do I know? (Answer: =
Less and
less as time goes on!)<BR><BR>Tom Sivak</FONT><FONT face=Geneva =
color=#000000
size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"></FONT> =
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