Hi Carol, I was the tuner. The piano had gone a very long time without tuning. Each of the other tunings was a fairly dramatic pitch correction. All I am saying is that apparently humidity causes this effect. The solution to me is quite obvious--control humidity, or suffer the consequences. At 06:06 PM 08/01/2000 EDT, you wrote: >Where you the one who tuned it the last four times? If not, maybe the tuner >muted the strings, tuned the middle string, the proceeded to tune the >tunisons 1 to 2, then 3 to 1 and 2, and wasn't very good at it! > >If you tuned the piano last time, try tuning it one single string at a time >starting with A0 and working your way up to C8, one string at a time. > >Carol Beigel, RPT >Greenbelt, MD > >>From: Don <drose@dlcwest.com> >>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >>To: pianotech@ptg.org >>Subject: humidity effect >>Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:51:33 -0600 >> >>Hi all, >> >>I am still pursuing humdity effects on pianos. >> >>The piano: >> >>Young Chang G-157 (small grand) ten years old tuned four times in the last >>year. >> >>The conditions: >> >>Humidity on Feb 3 2000 was 22% >> >>Humidity Aug 1 2000 was 51% >> >>The observsation: >> >>In every 3 string unison the "bass wire" was significantly flat of the >>middle wire and the "treble wire" was significantly sharp of the middle >>wire. >> >>I did take time to measure c7 which gave the results b = +6 m = +12 and t = >>+19. There were many notes that had an even greater spread, but I feel this >>note was probably typical. >> >>Would anyone else like to confirm these oberservations? Please? >> >> >> >> >>Regards, >>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. >> >>Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts >> >>drose@dlcwest.com >>http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ >> >>3004 Grant Rd. >>REGINA, SK >>S4S 5G7 >>306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts drose@dlcwest.com http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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