[CAUT] Advice for achieving stability sooner?

[Chris Solliday]

While I certainly agree with Ron on the bridge biz, it might be better to
establish an effective maintenance program for this institution which is a
minimum of tuning 4 times a year on each piano and full climate control
systems ala Draine.
Chris Solliday RPT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Advice for achieving stability sooner?


> Diane Hofstetter wrote:
>
> > I'm considering doing less careful pitch raises, but doing
> > two of them before I try to tune.  Have also wondered about
> > tapping strings on bridges.
>
> Please don't seat the strings on the bridges. It won't help a
> thing, and will likely cause damage. What's needed here is
> reality, not magic. The pianos are just at least four tunings
> behind the curve (environmental factors notwithstanding) for
> new instruments. Haul them all up to pitch, overshoot as
> necessary, leaving them even a bit sharp. Give it a couple of
> days, then start tuning. Tune them again in April (they'll
> need it, this is catch-up), and go from there to a typical
> twice a year tuning at the worst possible time in the seasonal
> cycles. By the time another year passes, they shouldn't be
> significantly worse than anything else in the system.
>
> Ron N