Can't tune a thing

[Richard Moody]

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> From: Maxpiano@aol.com
> To: pianotech@byu.edu
> Subject: Re: Can't tune a thing
> Date: Thursday, March 13, 1997 5:30 PM
>
> My early experiences with Acrosonics were that any change in floor
contour
> (i.e. one leg higher than the other) would show up as
out-of-tuneness across
> the bass-tenor break.
>
> Bill Maxim, RPT

That brings back a memory...

	When I was just an apprentice, my great German Genius Master let me
bring in a piano I had bought from Good Will.   P.S. Wick, studio,
upon which I was to get lessons in setting the temperament.  And so
they went, "This third is too slow, this one is way to fast, this
fifth is horrible, etc etc. along with invectives in English and
German, and one or two in Yiddish thrown in for good measure.  One
day he tuned the temperament and an octave below and above, and I was
to tune out the remaining octaves, but first one end the piano had to
be set on a milk crate so the casters could be replaced.  For some
reason while it was in this tilted position, I played some octaves in
the area he had just tuned.  They were terrible even to my ear.
"Schweinasheis"(sp?), he exclalimed.  We finished installing the
casters and set the piano down.  He then played the offending
octaves, but lo and behold they were back in tune.  We set the piano
back on the crate, and the octaves were out as before. Set it back
down, and they were in again.  We must have tightened the plate
bolts, yet I can't remember.

Richard Moody