[CAUT] Boston Question

Don pianotuna at accesscomm.ca
Tue Apr 21 08:39:27 PDT 2009


Hi Avery,

Make that 6 ish not 7 ish assuming that it is 193 cm long. Take along some
protech and treat the pressure bar and other friction points at the pin end
of the strings.

Do all the usual stability stuff. 

At 09:30 AM 4/21/2009 -0500, you wrote:
>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'&& 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'"" 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'""!     Any help
>would be appreciated. Thanks.    Avery Todd, RPT Houston, TX  No virus
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Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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