Interesting. Usually that's the case in Nebraska, but our summer was so mild and not very humid. The pianos didn't really go much more than 15-20 cents sharp. Winter will be another story when there's nearly 0 humidity for several months! Paul From: "Ken Smith" <kensmith at thepianosmith.com> To: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>, <pianotech at ptg.org> Date: 09/22/2009 03:59 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] How sharp I don't record how sharp each piano is but I'd guess probably 40 cents on the average. I'm in New Jersey and this the worst year for being sharp I've seen in 25 years. Kenneth Smith / Registered Piano Technician The Pianosmith 136 E Main Street Somerville NJ 08876 908-526-4334 www.pianosmith.com Hailun Piano Dealer Petrof Piano Dealer Galileo Digital Pianos PianoDisc Piano Player System Dampp-Chaser Humidity Control System House of Troy Lamps ----- Original Message ----- From: David Ilvedson To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] wrist trouble Marshall How much off from A440 (flat or sharp) do you find the pianos at this time in year? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Marshall Gisondi" <pianotune05 at hotmail.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 9/21/2009 4:50:00 AM Subject: [pianotech] wrist trouble >Hi Everyone, >Thanks so much for teh suggestnos etc. There were so many that I thought I'd just >thank everyone at once. :-) The problem I'm noticing is the muscles in the hand not >so much the wrist, muscles on top of the hand near the wrist. When I tune later, I'll >keep an eye on it. Once I get that taken care of, I can then figure out how to >speed up so I can get these pianos finished. School pianos sure take a beating and >are rarely on pitch when I go to tune them. Thanks again everyone. Have a great >day >Marshall >Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician >Marshall's Piano Service >pianotune05 at hotmail.com >215-510-9400 >Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind >www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA >_________________________________________________________________ >Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. >http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090922/d2818eda/attachment-0001.htm>
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