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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