Stable Floor tunings?

[Charly Tuner]

Hi Richard,

Yes, I would very much appreciate receiving those articles you
mentioned regarding humidity, and its effects on pianos. thanks!

Terry

>From: Richard Brekne <richardb@c2i.net>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Stable Floor tunings?
>Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 01:26:26 +0100
>
>Hi Terry, while aggreeing on most points with most respected Dan M, (and 
>others)
>I dont really adhere to this pounding buisness, not at least as I 
>understand the
>word pounding to mean. Ok, you got to hit the keys hard, but no harder then 
>the
>thumb and forfinger from about 2 inches away allow for. My experience tells 
>me
>that any harder than this really accomplishes nothing, tho it may create 
>the
>illusion of doing so. Regardless of how much you pound out over reasonalble 
>hard
>play, you are still going to have to re-tune the piano in a few weeks... 
>nothing
>really changes. (Flame suit not neccessary as I am inflamable... grin)
>
>Otherwise you pretty well sum it up in your origional post, new pianos... 
>cheap
>ones that dont get enough attention at the factory especially.... in a 
>location
>with no humidity controll and large variations in the humidity.... this is 
>a
>prescription for unstablitity in tuning. Do your self a favour... read up,
>research as much as you can get your hands on about what is really known 
>about
>humidity and how it affects instruments and their construction. Get 
>yourself
>armed with authoritive information so that you can speak with authority to 
>store
>owners and the like. And through the years put yourself in a position, 
>through
>hard work and learned skill, where you can walk away from individuals who 
>simply
>are not interested in understanding the truth of this matter.
>
>Untill then my freind, you are going to just have to make the best of it.
>Sometimes you will have to eat the proverbial sh--, from unfair and 
>unreasonable
>types that you simply need cuz of money concerns. But know that you are 
>correct
>in your assessment of the problem, and dont let it get you down or make you 
>feel
>like "its you" and not the piano. You will get better control over 
>stability
>concerns as it relates to hammer technique as time goes by anyways. But 
>what you
>describe is more typical of other factors then hammer technique. (poor 
>hammer
>technique normally shows results in a much shorter time... grin... like 
>within a
>couple days.)
>
>If you like I can send you a few articles I have pertaining to humidity 
>concerns
>that you may not have found. In addition there are routinely articles in 
>the
>Journal. You should collect these and read them and all other pertainant
>information.
>
>Keep on keeping on.
>
>
>
>--
>Richard Brekne
>Associate PTG, N.P.T.F.
>Bergen, Norway
>

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