David, Over the years, it's never ceased to amaze me how much pianists DON'T know about their instruments!!! Avery At 01:19 PM 12/26/02 -0800, you wrote: >Here's an interesting story that relates to this somewhat. I went to tune a >piano for a woman I have been working for for 15 years. The piano hadn't >been tuned for over a year and when I got to it (Yamaha C7) I could find >only a small handful of unisons that weren't tight, just barely moving. The >rest of the piano was dead on. I went through the entire piano in about >10 - 15 minutes. The tuning was so close that I asked her if she'd had it >tuned since I was there last. She assured me that she hadn't. I told her >that I couldn't find much that was out of tune, that the tuning had held up >surprisingly well. I spent a bit of time touching up the voicing, told her >it really didn't need much, charged her my minimum fee (much less than my >standard tuning fee), thought I was doing her a favor by being honest about >it and left. A year passes by and she doesn't respond to my reminder card, >so I call her up. She says that the last time I was there she didn't >believe that the piano could not have been out of tune after that much time >(she's the sort who can't really tell though she plays well) and so she >called up someone else after I left to be sure. That person is now working >for her. Gee, I wonder what he told her? Go figure. No good deed goes >unpunished. I think next time I'll just find something wrong whether it's >there or not. > >David Love > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net> >To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: December 26, 2002 12:39 PM >Subject: Re: Aural versus ETD tuning training > > ><snip> > > How long doesthat "perfect" tuning last anyway? Couple hours? Couple >days? > > >David I. > >I have - a couple of days. She called the evening of the afternoon it was >tuned, and I got her in as soon as I could. This has happened with both >aural, and ETD tuners. I can often tell who the last tuner was a year after >the last tuning by what remains. It's easier to do that with an aural >tuning, naturally. > >I always found it much easier tuning when I follow (but not stalk) myself. >Otherwise, I have to re-train the darn thing. > >Ron N > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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