I have to disagree... there simply is no such thing as a piano that <<requiress>> hard pounding to get into and hold a stable tuning. There are too many tuners out there that are capable of extremely stable tunings without pounding. There may be tuners who can only tune this way... and there may be tuners who cant get a stable tuning one way or the other... but that by no means says anything about pianos... only the tuners. Pounding is simply not necessary. Pound away if you find it the easiest way to be sure... but in the end the <<stable tuning>> is in the wrist. Pounders... at least the good ones... simply set the string by learning the right combination of where to leave the pin and how much pounding to bring it into place. Non pounders... at least teh good ones of these just set the string where it should be in the first place and no amount of pounding will do anything positive at all. This is a classic different strokes for different folks thingy... there is no <<one way>> here. Cheers RicB Well said Les and I think overlooked by many, perhaps including myself. I tune way too many, poorly by half, regulated pianos and I still, no matter how poor the instrument is, must satisfy my own standards that the piano is tuned to the best of my ability. Sometimes that requirs a lot of pounding that I wouldn't do or would find needless on a better piano.
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