Terry: I have a tuning lever head with a 5-inch extension. When I get up to where the hammer handle would hit the side, I switch heads and just keep going. It took a little getting used to at first, but is now second nature. If you stand while tuning that area the feel of the lever is just like the feel with the shorter head when seated. At the university, all grand pianos in studios are covered with music 6 - 8 inches high (and sometimes higher). It would take a lot of time to unload them and it's not worth it. The only time I raised the top was if I had to replace a string lower in the scale than the highest capo section. dave David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Terry Farrell Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:22 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] butterfuly grand I lift the lid on grand pianos to tune them because I sit on the treble side of the piano to tune the treble-most string section. When I sit there, my tuning lever is roughly parallel to the strings and the lid would be in the way if it were down. Where do you sit to tune the high treble? Terry Farrell On Jun 2, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Porritt, David wrote: Les: I have done one butterfly several times in the past. The lid is always up. I don't remove tops to tune, I don't even raise the lid on pianos unless I have to get to a broken string. Pianos are loud enough that I always wear hearing protectors. Why would I want to raise the lid to tune it? dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu<mailto:dporritt at smu.edu> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org> [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Bartlett Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:12 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: [pianotech] butterfuly grand To those who've tuned a M&H Butterfly grand, did you completely remove the lid to do it? I'm going back for a second tuning of this beautifully redone little piano, and am a bit reticent to remove the whole lid because of possible accidental scratching, but afraid not to because of difficulty of tuning. Advice, please....... Thanks Les bartlett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100602/859a806f/attachment.htm>
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