Tuning in public places.

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Warren,
I tried that with the keyslip and promptly ran into the damper 
spoons. I guess that I'll have to depress them less. ;-)

Andrew

At 04:00 PM 7/31/2005, you wrote:
>Andrew,
>If you get one of those sticks that come with a new pianos  and cut it so
>that it extends over the sides of the keys by a half inch or so, place it
>behind the black key tops and when you put the action in far enough  for
>the hammers to clear the pin block, hook your thumbs on the front of the
>keyframe and then press down on the stick with your fingers while pushing
>the action home, you will miss the fingers, unless one is already bent and
>stuck up high, but I assume you would look first.
>Hah! Try to read all that in one breath!! :-)
>Warren
>
>Warren Fisher- RPT
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>
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Andrew and Rebeca  Anderson <anrebe@sbcglobal.net>
> > To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Date: 7/31/2005 12:25:14 PM
> > Subject: Tuning in public places.
> >
> > For your entertainment,
> > I recently tuned a Kohler & Campbell with a Samick scale plate and
> > all single strung for the headquarters of the Laredo National
> > Bank.  This is in a glassed over lobby (sunny in the AM) and business
> > happens all around it.  There are lots of people going back and forth
> > so I put my business cards on the lid while I was tuning (half of
> > them gone afterwards).  The piano was not tuned in a long time,
> > probably not since the dealer delivery tuning.  There were regulation
> > problems and a broken hammer to boot.
> >
> > What was amusing is how people reacted to the work in progress.  I
> > hold a thumper in my fist and test often when pitch
> > correcting.  People would stop and stare.  I use a VT100, especially
> > when pitch correcting, which they found very fascinating  (got
> > another job because of that).
> >
> > The security guards liked to relieve their boredom by coming over and
> > striking up conversations.  I can talk while thumping if they can
> > too. ;-)  One bank exec. type simply couldn't wait and when I was
> > about a third of the way through my second pass said, "Don't mind
> > me," sat down beside me and started playing the first movement to
> > Beethovan's 'Moonlight' sonata.  At which point I did stop thumping. :-D
> >
> > Five hours, three & 1/2 passes and damper easing, lube and sostuneto
> > regulation later the piano sounded OK for a Samick.
> >
> > This one has a PianoDisc system on it.  Any special considerations
> > for regulating one of these? other than the annoyance of having to
> > lift over the player fingers?  Any way to lower those finger while
> > working on it?  It needs voicing too and that would be a real pain
> > going in and out a lot like I do.
> >
> > Chilling in, in Texas,
> > Andrew
> >
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