This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment > Last Friday I received an emergency tuning request for > someone having a Christmas party and using an 1859 > Steinway square grand. The pianist had just come to > try it out and said it was really out of tune. A square grand out of tune......? Hard to believe!!! =20 =20 > So, the owners called me and said they would pay > whatever if I would come and tune it before the party. =20 Now this sounds like a good gig! =20 > This was my first square to tune. It had just been > rebuilt and purchased from another state. I took my > daughter to play the keys. That sort of worked. It's > hard to get someone else to play the keys and > intervals like you want. I can only imagine. Good time to get out the Verituner or some-such = device. > The torque on the pins was > off the scale. I would think 200+, so, very hard to > manipulate. I hope those will loosen up with > subsequent tunings. Squares don't need tuning for at least 20 years, so the pins should be = fine next time..... ;-) > A couple of hammers grazed > strings on adjacent notes and there wasn't time to fix > those. >=20 > All in all it was a very difficult job and the results > were not anything I would want another tech to hear. Ditto. That has generally been my experience - of course the few that I = have tuned have all been 130 year-old, worn-out, rusty, crusty, = delapitated heaps. Sounds like you got the square grand bug!!! ;-) > Bob Hull ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a5/83/2b/3a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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