This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Alan, Be honest any speak from what you know. For me it would be a matter of using what I know about guitar tuning, = fret size, nut termination, octave tuning at the 12th fret in relation = to the bridge and when the string is played at the fret or the node for = an overtone octave ot fourth, fifth etc. a lot of information that is = factual and relates to both the piano and guitar.=20 When was the last time he changed the strings on his guitar? Why did you = change them? Are questions that might lead him into seeing that while = the two instruments are similar ( use strings ) their maintainance is = not. Including tuning. For me it would be necessary to get a read on his = level of knowledge. Then procede to educate. Not too much information, = only enough to bring the client arround to knowing you are the informed = expert. Some dead on double octaves in the low tenor and bass like C1, C2, C3, = or even up to C4 might show what he needs to hear. Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: tune4u@earthlink.net=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 6:35 PM Subject: Rosler ... Store Prep I'm going Tues. to tune a new Rosler upright just purchased from the = local piano store--the guy who tunes flat scale with a guitar tuner or a = strobe. I KNOW he has done no new-piano prep. If this were your, call. How would you handle this first call? And = what's the word on Rosler pianos, I've never seen one. 'Preciate any advice. My experience to-date has been almost = exclusively with pianos that have been "in the field" for years. Alan Barnard Salem, MO ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7f/e2/71/64/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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