May Their Practice rooms be filled with 1098's

[Richard Brekne]

Newton Hunt wrote:

I dont know about all this 1098 problem stuff... I myself have never experienced
any particular difficulties tuning them. Allright... the first one took a bit of
getting used to.. but I got the hang of them quick enough.

I learned early on that turning the pins was a matter of getting them to feel as
much like you were screwing them in... turning smoothly. Whatever tuning hammer
works to accomplish that is what it takes to use. I am almost always past 12:00
position on nearly all pianos, scored 100 % on my stability section of the tuning
test, have always been known for stable tunings, and do not pound in any sense of
the word. And I cant honestly say its really any more difficult as a general rule
to tune Steinway pianos as any other piano.

The only time consuming jobs relating to the physical part of tuning I ever run
into are the pianos with super super tight pins that simply wont turn.. but rather
jump and crack no matter what you try to do. I dislike that condition far more then
a rendering problem myself.

I find pianos, no matter what the make..to variant from instrument to instrument
for me to make this kind of generalization.



> Ron is right on.
>
> These pianos do render too well.  If you keep your hammer as
> close to 10:00 as you can keep it the better you can control
> the flag poling because the pull of the hammer is counter
> balanced by the pull of the string.

--
Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway