The novice

[Doug Mahard]

Hi Clyde,

How where the unisons sounding on this piano?

PS - thanks for  your private post.

Doug Mahard

----- Original Message -----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:10 AM
Subject: The novice


> Friends,
>
> I am taking this post in a different direction.  Sometimes on the first
> visit to a client I find the tuning so strange that I think a novice must
> have tuned it the last time.
>
> For example, yesterday I tuned a spinet that I had last tuned in May,
1991,
> but the client assured me that someone else tuned it in 1998.  It had been
> moved to a son's house and back.  Before I started, the bass was up to 11c
> sharp, the treble was up to 28c flat, but what I found unusual was that a
> note 12 cents sharp might be next to a note 15 cents flat, and this
occurred
> throughout although mostly in the center section.
>
> When whole sections of the piano are uniformly out of tune, I can easily
> account for that, but when a section has differences of up to 25 cents on
> adjacent notes, I can only attribute that to a "tooner" who had no idea
what
> he was doing.  Am I right?  I decided it was prudent not to express my
> thoughts to the client.
>
> Regards,
> Clyde Hollinger
>
>
> > If I were to encounter a piano that had been just tuned to an historical
> > temperment I'm sure I'd think that the piano had been tuned by a novice.
> >
> > Tom Ayers
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