to A442 & back(D)

[Greg Newell]

David,
         I believe the difficulty is found mainly in the Steinway brand of 
pianos. They can be difficult to tune especially as they age. I know, I 
know, everybody knows this right? One of the things I like to do with 
TuneLab once I've got a particular piano tweaked and saved is to tune both 
left and right strings individually to the graphic and match the middle to 
them both together aurally. This has proven to give a much more stable 
tuning for me on every piano I have done this on.  FWIW

Greg Newell



At 12:17 PM 5/4/2002, you wrote:
>--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
>wrote:
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> > Not sure I am with you here..... are you saying that
> > tuning down pitch
> > causes strings to need seating ?...
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>No, it came up 8 cents then down 8 cents.
>My thinking is when it was pitch raised I think the
>board moved down a bit, the strings may not follow.
>This is conjecture on my part, looking for others
>input.
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> > Hey.... as long as you are getting paid for all the
> > work involved... why
> > should anyone refuse a legitimate job ?
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>  So why refuse. Because I am searching for a higher
>standard then I find I can produce 8 cents up, 8 cents
>down, 8 cents up.....
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>   I don't mean refuse the Job, but refuse to change
>pitch that much. This is used for TV broadcast
>sometimes. There is no way the piano is going to be
>as stable.  I want it to sound its best more then
>I want more work. I have too much work anyway, it
>is a problem. This piano was done 16 times last month.
>Before I pitch raised it it was stable as a rock.
>I had refined my tuning, experimented with the
>stretch.
>I had never used tunelab before, but used the fact I
>as doing this piano so often to experiment with
>the program by analyizing the way I tune aurally,
>negotiated with tunelab, Measured the inharmicity of
>every bass note(for interest),I ended up
>memorizing/saving my best aural tuning on
>it with the program. It was sounding very, very good,
>Strings seated and level, voiced, and very getting
>extreamly stable. Now it appears to have taken two
>steps back. A high standard is far more important
>then making more work, and having a weaker product
>for it.
>                          Thanks
>                          Dave Renaud
>                          RPT
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>                          Dave Renaud
> > >                          RPT
> > >                          Canada
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> > Richard Brekne
> > RPT, N.P.T.F.
> > Bergen, Norway
> > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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