[pianotech] PR follow up

[David Love]

Exactly.  One could argue that no piano is ever fine tuned since any piano
which is even the slightest out of tune requires a "pitch adjustment" and
the piano then must wait to achieve stability.  In the meantime I suppose
the moisture from my breath alters the RH and the piano starts shifting.
Tuning is always a moving target but that doesn't mean that we can't
reasonably define "fine" tuning as one in which the piano stays where we put
it assuming adequate skill and a stable environment.  Otherwise, the
discussion becomes somewhat meaningless.    

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of wimblees at aol.com
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 7:13 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] PR follow up

 

 

Either I am dimwitted, which I accept, or I am truly being unclear, which I
also accept, or there is a wholesale confusion on the concept of what
constitutes a "fine" tuning after a radical pitch alteration. 

 

P

I think there are probably too many wits that are dim, and enough minds that
are unclear, for all of us to get confused. :)

 

But the question still remains, at what point does the piano get "fine
tuned"? How long does it have to sit, and how many passes do you have to go
through, before you can define the piano as having been "fine tuned"? Using
your criteria, it seems that no one could ever do that on any piano.

 

Wim



-----Original Message-----
From: PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Fri, Aug 28, 2009 3:54 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] PR follow up

 

 

In a message dated 8/28/2009 8:34:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
wimblees at aol.com writes:

I pitch raised and fine tuned it

I say,  "No you didn't. You tuned it adequately". This is my only point, the
confusion between fine and adequate tuning. Whatever the causes, whatever
the methods, whatever the skills, whatever the piano, whatever the number of
"passes", whatever, whatever, whatever. Maybe it makes no difference
whatsoever.

 

Either I am dimwitted, which I accept, or I am truly being unclear, which I
also accept, or there is a wholesale confusion on the concept of what
constitutes a "fine" tuning after a radical pitch alteration. 

 

P

 

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