Clyde,,, I think that this varies from customer to customer... but one reason I am pretty sure this happens is the human ego. We like to appear knowledgeable if you get my meaning. Hits us all, all the time without we being able to catch ourselves at it half the time. A piano owner, has in spite of everything, at least some vauge understanding of the fact that a piano should be relatively out of tune after a years time. They also most often are aware that a pianotuners hearing is much more keen at listening for that out of tuneness. I think often enough the answer to your question is that its a combination of these that makes the customer make such pronouncements. Course then you always have the once in a while customer who simply hears really well that the instrument is out of tune... fairly clean unisons not withstanding. What amazes me with THESE types is how often you also hear..."its good enough" from them.... depending often on pocket book considerations like... whose pocket book... how much there is in it... and ... do I get to keep any of it if I get the tuner out fast.... :) But like I say... I dont think there is just one answer to your question RicB Clyde Hollinger wrote: >Friends, > >This current conversation brings to mind something I've often wondered >about. Sometimes when I arrive to give a piano its annual tuning the >client >will say, "It really needs it!" Then I find that none of the unisons or >intervals sound bad at all. There are no real tone or regulation problems, >either. So how can this client, who is far from professional, think the >piano "really needs it" when it is quite close? > >Regards, >Clyde Hollinger, RPT >Lititz, PA, USA > > Richard Brekne RPT NPTF Griegakadamiet UiB
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