Piano Tech Terms

[Robert Goodale]

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Definitions of Piano Tech Terms
By Rob Goodale, RPT


1. Damper Lifter:  A device used for humidity control.

2. Key Bed:  A place where famous pianists sleep

3. Balance rail:  An Olympic event

4.  Punchings:  Accented notes in loud staccato music with heavy =
pedaling

5.  Shift lever:  What you use to put the piano in gear after depressing =
the left pedal

6.  Damper Tray:  Where the water goes for a piano humidifier.

7.  Sticker:  Keys that won't go back up

8.  Partial:  A small piano with less than 88 keys

9.  Bridal Tapes:  The lace fringe on the end of a bride's vale

10.  Bridge Cap:  Dental work

11.  Sound Board:  Really uninspiring music

12.  Center Pin:  The note that is exactly in the middle of a piece of =
music

13.  Bushing:  A very large house plant sitting on top of the piano

14.  Buckskin:  What piano tuners get on their fingers after tuning too =
many pianos

15.  Lifter:  Inspiring music, (see sound board)

16.  Serial Numbers:  A nutritious breakfast item for piano tuners

17.  Steinway:  A German beer

18.  Stack:  A lot of sheet music

19.  Key Slip:  Mistakes pianists make during practice

20.  Wippen:  What kids get if they don't practice

21.  Damper Spring:  April showers

22.  Duplex Scale:  Playing in two different key signatures at once

23.  Lyre:  One who tells fybs.

24.  Cheek Blocks:  Cosmetic surgery for old pianists

25.  Casters:  A collection of short musical pieces to be played while =
fishing

26.  Nose Bolts:  What keeps Frankenstein's nose from falling off

27.  Agraff:  A wild African mammal

26.  Veneer:  French Wine

27.  Young Chang:  The son of the older one

28.  Action:  Why you go to piano bars

29.  Hitch Pin:  A closing tactic used by piano salesman

30.  Regulation:  The rules enforced by elementary school music teachers

31.  Let-off:  What bad pianists should do.

32.  Stretcher:  Warm up exercises

33.  Artist Bench:  What oil painters sit on when they work

34.  Wurlitzer:  The daiquiri blender at a piano bar

35.  Trap Work:  Playing for tips at a strip bar

36.  Back Post:  Something to lean against

37.  Lid Prop:  Lids used on pianos in the movies.

38.  Art Case:  What Art packs his clothes in when he goes to a PTG =
convention.

39.  Belly Rail:  An abdominal exercise apparatus for sopranos

40.  Back Check:  Looking behind to see if the audience hasn't left the =
hall


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