On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Ursula Hammerling < ursulapianotuning at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a customer with a 40 year old Baldwin spinet. When she acquired it, > the owner told her, it had never been tuned. This piano is very unstable on > 2 tunings a year. > > Does any one of you have experience with a climate control system in this > kind of a case. > I put climate control systems into other pianos with good results, but am > not quite sure, whether it is justified in such a case, whether the tuning > would become much more stable. Is this throwing good money after a hopeless > piano? > > Thanks, > Ursula > > > Ursula Hammerling > Registered Piano Technician > 48 Winged Foot Lane > Washington, NJ 07882 > > tel 908-835-0033 > cell 908-507-1505 > UrsulaPianoTuning at yahoo.com > Hi Ursula, I have to agree with David & James, the piano needs to be stabilized at pitch first, a DC system isn't a panacea for pitch sabilization but rather a tool to assist a stabile piano to remain so. If it were me I would suggest tuning the piano more often initially in order to stabilize it much like one would with a new piano. 3 or 4 times the first year perhaps more if warranted, you don't say how flat the piano was initially, pointing out to the customer it took 40 years for the piano to get into this shape, it will take more than a few extra tunings to rectify it. Good luck, Mike -- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100505/0dbe3310/attachment.htm>
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