[CAUT] Seiler Flexing

Richard Murphy rmurphy at siue.edu
Mon Apr 27 04:54:31 PDT 2009


Hi Jeff,
    Yes I do, and the piano has a DC with undercover for about three years.
It stays very stable.  The room RH was 33% last Thursday.  The piano was not
out of tune and there were only two unisons that were wild, one was D5 which
I've been having trouble with this last 6 weeks. The right string is always
quite a bit out of tune, this time it was flat.  I've been starting to see
if it is always flat or not but have not kept track long enough to know yet.
I've been paying special attention to that note when tuning, but it still
seems to be a problem.
Richard


On 4/25/09 9:15 AM, "Jeff Tanner" <tannertuner at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Have you taken regular humidity readings?
> Jeff
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Murphy" <rmurphy at siue.edu>
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:54 AM
> Subject: [CAUT] Seiler Flexing
> 
> 
>> Hi All,
>>    I service a Seiler Grand 9' at a neighboring college and yesterday they
>> put it on a piano truck because the large brass wheels were marking up the
>> newly installed hard wood flooring.  The piano has always been quite nice
>> and fills the room well, an "A" frame sanctuary.  After they put the piano
>> on the truck, I went in to tune it as I tune this piano about every other
>> week,mostly just small touch ups and a unison here and there.  Two things
>> were very different now.  First, the music desk slide out easily, it used
>> to
>> be as tight fit, and the back length of A3 was now touching the plate and
>> buzzing.  I weaved felt through the strings in that area to stop the
>> buzzing, but I'm concerned about the piano flexing on this truck.  Is that
>> possible?  Could it keep flexing more?  Any one have a similar situation?
>> Thanks,
>> Richard J. Murphy
>> SIUE
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