This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Pierre, Tell them that tuning twice a year is great minimum, and 3 or 4th for piano classes. By accepting their conditions, you may be rob someone else job, and do yourself a disfavor, as you will be considered responsible for the bad state of the pianos that will happen inevitably. Indoor humidity is not only related to the continent it is mostly related to the process employed for heating in winter, in the conservatory I work for, the heat is strong in winter with no moisture added, and the drift in pitch can be as high as 18 cts (on pianos that play 8 hr /day that is ) Tuning twice does not necessary mean you will have to adjust pitch a lot, if I tune at 442 in the spring, the winter pitch is a little less than 440 often. The best moment for tuning in schools is before they ask it, because YOU know when and what is necessary ! Not useful but think about it , and when will you secure the action screws ? even the regulation, lube, regulate pedals and key play ? No matter what they pay if they ask you 1 tuning year, they are not considering you as a professional, this is abusing. Consider you are offended, or explain them what to do. May be you can find another way with them, an exchange or something that helps. Working for public music schools mean very low budget, but there may have some If you accept their law, they will call you the second day of the examinations, and at different other times to come in emergency always for things that should have been fixed if you had more often visits. Just my ideas about it. Regards, (don't mean to be rude, hope you did not feel it as that) Isaac -----Message d'origine----- De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de Gevaert Pierre Envoyé : mardi 24 septembre 2002 21:12 À : pianotech@ptg.org Objet : 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 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/57/41/5b/10/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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