Keeping A440

[Richard Brekne]

Alpha88x@aol.com wrote:

> Greetings,
>  
>              I have a new customer who is head of a music department. 
> Claims she gets all the pianos tuned 3 times a year: All newer (1980+ 
> -) Yamahas. One is a grand C7.  I found them all around 8 cycles 
> flat!  I find this difficult to fathom. Yet the tuner's card is inside 
> the piano with all the dates written on it.
>
When was it last tuned... and whats the climate like now ?

Could be the tuner caught the tail end of the fall season and since then 
the humidity has dropped through the floor.  It happens.


Cheers
RicB

>               I am really having a hard time believing that these 
> pianos were actually brought up to pitch at each tuning. I own a 
> Yamaha. They hold a tuning (In my home anyway). The pianos are only 
> used about 10 hours a week more than a residence. What could be 
> causing such a drop?
>
> rookie
> Julia Gottchall'
> Reading, PA