A 440 Standard (PS)

Jeff Tanner jtanner@mozart.sc.edu
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:33:24 -0400


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On Wednesday, April 14, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Wimblees@aol.com wrote:
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> I can attest to the temperature change effect on a piano.=A0It was the=20=

> middle of January in St. Louis about 20 years ago, when three of us=20
> were master tuning a Kawai grand in a large=A0sanctuary of a church. I=20=

> had made arrangements for the janitor to turn the heat=A0on at 8, =
and=A0we=20
> started at about 10 AM.=A0By about 1 PM we were working on the upper=20=

> registers, doing checks with the middle. But we were having a hell of=20=

> time making intervals match. We rechecked the middle, and it had=20
> drifted. All of a sudden we noticed that the temperature in the=20
> sanctuary had dropped about 5 degrees. Apparently the janitor shut=20
> down the heat when he left at noon, and didn't tell us.=A0Needles to=20=

> say, we had to stop the master tuning.
> =A0
> Wim
>

same thing happens in my recital hall when i remove the piano cover
Jeff

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