---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Terry, After living in a studio apartment where I saw my loaner studio piano go 10 cents sharp in a couple of days, one of the first questions I ask is about environmental conditions. The piano in this case is in a very temperate house(about 68 degrees day in/day out and year-round). The tuning in question wasn't uniformly off. There were some really funny sounding octaves, inconsistent with their neighbors. Thanks for the suggestion. Dave S. In a message dated 4/8/04 2:45:51 AM Pacific Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: > I would suggest a little bit of caution when judging someone else's tuning > skills. No doubt, you are likely right that it was a poor tuning. But you > never know, three weeks out. > > I think I tune reasonable well. I tuned a little console at a church a while > back. They called me a week later and said the pianist was complaining about > the tuning. I went to check it out and thought they had switched pianos - > way out of tune and 25 cents flat. After chatting a while longer I learned that > the day after I tuned it they finally had their swamp-type air-conditioning > system replaced with a modern lower-humidity-type air conditioning system. > Aa-haaa! > > My example above is extreme - no doubt. But my point is who knows what > environmental or other factors affected things over the past three weeks. Maybe > the piano was 200 cents flat before the tuning three weeks ago. Maybe the cat > has been jumping on the strings. Maybe they store their music books on the > strings. > > Just my 2 cents worth (or not). > > Terry Farrell > ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f8/09/21/2a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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