In a message dated 1/16/2000 10:58:02 PM, Les B. wrote: << a lot happened, both good, and questionable, and I need to know more than I do the "next" time this happens.>> Les; We all "need to know more than we do" cause the next time will happen :-) Sounds like you did good though cause being played "hard" for three or four hymns ain't the same as being played hard for a concert series 'four' times! <<" (If I had known how heavy handed they played, I would simply have chickened out and gotten one of the truly good tuners in the city to do it.)">> Oh Bullfeathers....how do you think the "truly good tuners" got that way ? Besides it sounds as if you did good boy...... <<" I heard only one octave tonight that seemed not to hold, and one unison bothered me, both notes on the Kawai.">> Like a football coach watching a football game you weren't listening to the music, you were listening to individual notes.........this is why I detest having to sit through performances using instruments I have tuned, I let the 'notes' get in the way of the music :-) <<"I'd appreciate thoughts regarding, a) the relatively low pitch at start, and instability this morning">> Absolutely normal given the service history of these pianos. <<"b) guesses as to how much the humidity might have changed a reasonably stable tuning.">> A bunch, particuarly if you succumb to the anal paralysis of your first duo "concert" tuning :-) <<"c) should I have guessed keys might have stuck, though nothing indicated they would. .I'd even left them a note for the morning with my cell phone # in case anything showed up as problematic.">> Yeah you should have, but so what? Which of the 176 keys would you have guessed would stick? And under what conditions? <<"d) billing........ In effect I did four tunings, plus the touch-ups required to tweak things as best I could, and I had get into the action to fix a slipping jack, and reset a hammerline which had become inconsistent over the years.">> Bill for the work you did. <<"e) These pianos are used as parlor pianos or perhaps in Sunday school as usual fare, not regularly tuned and used "hard". Should I have insisted on tuning them once more (though time wouldn't have allowed it, to bring them more stability, given the starting pitch of about A-435?)">> Well sure, you should have had 'concert seasoned' pianos but even if the guys had brought their own pianos there would have been problems with stability 'off the truck'. I think Ron N. said it all when he said <<"The next one will be easier, even if it's worse. Congratulations, Ron N">> Jim Bryant (FL)
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