The "NeverTune Piano"

[Elian Degen J.]

I came across quite a few of these pianos, but what I noticed about them
here is that all of them were very old pianos, mostly American pianos, (the
old heavy ones) bass strings mostly dead, the rest of the strings, in so
many years have been stretched almost to maximum

I remember when I studied engineering (correct me if wrong ) when you
stretch a string, before it breaks it first reaches a plateau where tension
keeps increasing but string will not stretch anymore. If the piano also
reached an equilibrium in the compression excerpted by the strings couldn´t
this result in a very stable pitch for a very long time ?


----- Original Message -----
From: <Wimblees@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: The "NeverTune Piano"


> In a message dated 8/25/99 11:19:31 AM !!!First Boot!!!, cedel@redrose.net
> writes:
>
> << I have this question.  If I find a piano remarkably close to pitch
which
>  hasn't been tuned for ten years, do I touch up the tuning and then say
>  "see you again in _another_ ten years"?  More frequent tuning doesn't
>  seem to make sense to the owner in some of these situations, but I can't
>  make myself recommend they leave it go that long, even if it is rarely
>  used.
>
>  Clyde Hollinger >>
>
>
> Although I did have that one Gully, there have been cases where for years
on
> end, a piano would drift off by only a few cents here and there. But then,
> for no explainable reason, after five or six years being stable, the piano
is
> way off, by 20 or 30 cents.
>
> If you allow a customer to think a yearly tuning is not needed, she'll let
it
> go. And then, by the time she calls you, because she can hear it is out of
> tune, you'll have to do more work.
>
> Wim
>