Interestingly Stable

[Piannaman@aol.com]

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I recently agreed to tune my ex-wife's 10 year old Schiedmayer(built by Kawai 
to Schiedmayer specs) 6 foot grand piano.  It was moved from the Sierra 
foothills over 2 years ago, and was last tuned by me in April of 2002 BEFORE the 
move.  It went from a house where the heat didn't go on until the temperature 
dropped to 50 degrees, and the AC didn't switch on until it hit 80, to a house 
where the temperature is probably 70.352 degrees 24/7/365.  

The last time I tuned it I spent 6 hours tweaking, pounding, tuning, 
retuning, playing, tuning, and getting it as stable as I could--far more stable than 
our relationship, it turns out....:-).  When I went into her house to see how 
much of a pitch raise it needed, I was surprised to find it only 0-5 cents flat 
throughout the entire instument, and the unisons were not in bad shape at all.

I find it interesting that a piano that underwent a 3000 foot elevation drop, 
a 150 mile move, and fairly substantial temperature change would hold it's 
tune so well for 2 years!  I was surprised to say the least.  There are times 
when I swear I've socked in a piano in a stable environment really well only to 
go back 6 months later and find it sounding like a honky-tonk pianner.  

Sometimes we just get lucky, I guess.  

Dave Stahl

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