tuning and European climate

[antares]

Hello Pierre Gevaert,

I have been working for the Amsterdam Conservatorium for about 25 years.
I can tell you that it is impossible to do your work for a music school
properly if they allow you just one tuning a year, IMPOSSIBILE!

However, if they/you insist, I would say : do your tuning right when school
starts after the summer vacation. They will have a decently tuned piano for
at least one week a year, right from the start.

friendly greetings
from

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland

"where music is, no harm can be"

visit my website at :  http://www.concertpianoservice.nl/


> From: "Gevaert Pierre" <pierre.gevaert@belgacom.net>
> Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:11:36 +0200
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Subject: tuning and European climate
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> Maybe this is a question for one or more European subscribers to this list
> (Isaac, Andre, Richard?)
> In fact, I was wandering about the diagrams of the anual indoor humidity
> cycles as shown in the books of Larry Fine, Reblitz or the Dampp-Chaser
> brochure, and if these are comparable with the West- European cicles.
> 
> The other thing I was wandering about is to know when should be the best
> moment to tune pianos in musicschools
> (they ask their pianos should be tuned only once a year and no Dampp-Chasers)
> It looks to me that some pianos have a great pitch drop in the middle section
> after New Year, so those should certainly be tuned twice?
> In the Piano Book, Larry Fine says that tuning pianos twice a year is not
> ideal (to much pitch adjustments)
> Thanks for any comments,
> 
> Pierre Gevaert,
> Belgium
>