SXSW tunings and weather question

[Michelle Smith]

Thanks everyone for your words of encouragement concerning the SXSW tunings.
I thought I would give you an update and ask a weather related question.  

 

Piano #1 - 7 ft. Yamaha, just inside the loading dock at the convention
center.  Giant fans running, guys moving equipment and yelling, booming
voice doing sound checks, and an equipment mover doing that beeping noise
every time he backed up.  Lights, guitars, drums, etc.  I have never been so
thankful for my ETD!  

 

Piano #2 - 6 ft Yamaha in a recording studio across town.  Deathly quiet.
Tomorrow they'll be moving it to an outside venue.  I tune at 7:00 pm and
they perform at midnight.  Local weather at that time will be about 65-70
degrees and the humidity will climb from 48% to 75%.  Ick.  Any advice for
keeping the piano in tune during the humidity shift besides keeping the lid
closed?

 

Having a blast in weird Austin,

Michelle Smith

 

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of piannaman at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 9:04 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: SXSW tunings

 

Michelle,

 

You'll do well.  IT's a heckuva lot easier to tune  7 foot Yamaha than what
you may have been tuning in the store.  It may take you more time, because
it IS possible to tune these pretty precisely.  This may be a situation
where an ETD comes in quite handy, particularly if it's a noisy environment!

 

Good luck, and enjoy the experience!

 

Dave Stahl, RPT



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