----- Original Message ----- From: <Piannaman@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:36 PM Subject: How often do you tune your piano? Mine's an old upright that just happens to hold its pitch very well from year to year. I once let it go for three years, then went to tune it and it was maybe one beat flat at A 49. Also, I have a high tolerance for out-of-tuneness on my own pianos, I guess because I played so many badly out-of-tune pianos in high school and college, and got used to it. My mind or "inner ear" compensates for it unless it's really atrocious. But recently I've tuned it about every year, installed a Dampp-Chaser system, and last week I restrung the tenor and treble (it was breaking too many strings). The bass is so rich and full, I'm afraid any new strings might actually sound worse, so I just kept the old ones! Also epoxied a small bridge crack. When I first got it, I rebushed the keys, installed new hammers & dampers, regulated, etc. Now it needs major balance pin hole work. I can't afford $2 K or whatever to have new keys made, so I'm going to try the wood inserts described by Bill Spurlock in the May 1990 Journal. --David Nereson, RPT
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