Friends, Years ago a client called me on the morning I was scheduled to tune her piano. She wondered if we should reschedule, since it was raining. My understanding at the time was that the tuning doesn't change that fast, so not to worry about it. But incidents such as Warren's would debunk that. The past couple of years I've heard of, and experienced, pianos changing even in the process of tuning. Jack Stebbins has a story about doing a concert tuning. He was part way finished when someone snapped the air conditioning on, which changed the tuning before he finished. What do you tell people on rainy days? Regards, Clyde Warren Fisher wrote: > Remember this piano had been very stable for years, but didn't have a D/C > system. The C of C picked up the piano at 8a.m. and installed it on the > outside porch of their building. At 10a.m., your's truly arrived to do my > thing. A4 measured 13 cents sharp!! The piano was used by the C of C until it > was returned to the caterer at 6:30p.m that day. At 9a.m. the next day, I > measured A4 again at 18 cents sharp!! For those of you still using your forks, > that's nearly a third of a half-step in 23 hours!
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