This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Your back didn't hurt cuz you've only tuned one...;-] It's a= cumulative thing...and "it had a really sweet sound"? = Please.... David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: <Piannaman@aol.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 02:18:54 EST Subject: Re: square grand tuning: fun Tom, I've tuned one, and only one, and my experience was similar to= yours. It had a really sweet sound, especially when tuned to= 438(prescribed on the plate in factory letters) to a Broadwood's= best temperament. My back didn't hurt either. While the action= wasn't up to modern standards(no abs-graphite in there...:-), it= worked okay for simple stuff. All in all, a rewarding= experience. Glad to hear you enoyed it, Dave Stahl In a message dated 12/21/04 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,= Tvak@aol.com writes: List Everything I know about tuning square grands I learned from what= I've read here on the list. Never having done it, and having a= fondness for things ancient, I read most of the posts about= square grands. And from what I've read, it's something you= would do only when faced with a firing squad. Why? Because= your back will be sore for days afterwards from bending over the= thing trying to reach the tuning pins and hit the key at the= same time. Still...I was willing to have a sore back just to have the= experience of working on one. Well, for those of you who haven't had the joy yet, let me say= that it ain't necessarily so. I tuned my first square grand= this week and it was fun. Yeah, I had to stretch a bit to reach= the tuning pins but I used my Schaff extension hammer and I= really had to stand (or stoop over) the piano only to reach the= top octave. The other pins I could reach while sitting at the= bench. (Stool, actually...) Maybe this was a small square, and thus was easier to reach the= tuning pins. Then again, maybe some people are just whiners. = Maybe both! This square, a Hallet and Davis, was a charming piano with a= quaint sound. There were no trichords, even the steel treble= strings were all bichords, so the tuning went fast. There were= a few bass wound bichords that were difficult (impossible) to= tune a true unison on, but hey, I had the exact same experience= with a Steinway 45" vertical today. Just thought I'd present a different viewpoint on the experience.= Tom Sivak Chicago PTG Associate P.S. For the record, I'm 5'11", and am not built like an orangutan: my= arm length is proportional to my height! (Just thought I'd cut= a couple of jokes in the bud.) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1a/38/68/b0/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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