[CAUT] Boston Question

[Porritt, David]

Avery:

The GP193 is 6'4" and if it is really only 10 years old, might still be under warranty.  I'd certainly check.  I thought - though I can't find it at the moment - that the Boston had a 12 year warranty.  Does it always go flat?  Do the unisons just spread out?  More information is needed to even guess.

dp

David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Avery Todd
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:31 AM
To: Pianotech List
Cc: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Boston Question

List,

I just had a call about a Boston GP193 (7' ish) that's app. 10 yrs. old with a persistent tuning problem in the upper 2-3 octaves. The unisons won't stay in tune. The owner has checked with several technicians & one even told him that the problem was inherent in that age of that piano & that there's no fix for the problem that he'd heard about. Newer versions no longer have the problem, he said.

I've never run across that particular one and have never heard of this (I've tuned very few Bostons). Has anyone else? Does anyone know of a "fix" for this problem, short of a redesign/rebuild? The piano is in a fairly large church and they now are planning on getting rid of it because of this problem. They don't really want to because they love the touch but they use it in a recording studio and it's "driving them crazy"!

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Avery Todd, RPT
Houston, TX
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090421/a5146d5f/attachment-0001.html>