[pianotech] PIANO BAR TUNING

[Terry Farrell]

While that's always something to consider, likely not the case here as  
the interior environments of these ships are super-duper stable. As  
dean pointed out, it could be a vent, but then again, the AC is going  
24/7, and even if a vent was blowing on it - its always blowing on it!  
I tune the pianos on three cruise ships in the Port of Tampa and the  
piano bar pianos are indeed the ones that go "out of tune" more than  
the others - mostly unisons, but I attribute that to these pianos  
being pounded on when the pianist "gets in the groove" - and the  
scantily clad women start dancing on the piano lid........  But maybe  
it is a humidity issue - things probably get pretty steamy in there  
some nights. And I wonder how much water is in a margarita - pouring a  
few of those over the soundboard and tuning pin field likely doesn't  
help anything either......  :-(

I would also like Ted to quantify his question as Dean asked.

Every once in a while a piano will have a unison 20, 30, 40 cents off  
- this on a piano that was just tuned two to four weeks prior. I can  
only assume in such a case that some gal is high heels was dancing on  
the strings or some drunk pianist whipped out his student tuning lever  
and had a go at it.

Terry Farrell

On Feb 12, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote:

> Ted,
>
> You could get one of these data loggers and attach it to the piano  
> for a while to see if it's a humidity/temp issue:
>
> http://www.thermoworks.com/products/logger/usb_loggers.html
>
> Don Mannino has used them at Kawai (it was posted here and featured  
> in the Journal.)  I've used mine a number of times for things piano  
> related and not piano related.
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> near Peoria, Illinois
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted Simmons" <tsimmons4 at cfl.rr.com>
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:04:28 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada  
> Central
> Subject: [pianotech] PIANO BAR TUNING
>
> I tune pianos for a cruise ship and they are puzzled about the piano  
> bar piano which goes out of tune readily.  Other pianos
> On the ship of the same model (Yamaha G2) are relatively stable and  
> require minor changes. The piano is used 3 hours each
> night. I tune the piano every 2 weeks. What can I tell the music  
> director?
>
> Ted Simmons
> Viera, Florida

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