Hi William. Fair enough. No disrespect felt on my end. However, at least from my perspective and my experience, post 1950 S&S verticals typically take me up to 50% more time to tune than any other piano. Yes, you need to change style a bit for a newer Baldwin vertical, but it doesn't take me any longer to tune than most any other piano. Just speaking for myself anyway, I have found that only post 1950 S&S verticals take significantly more time to tune than any other piano (players and square grands excluded). Just been my experience. Your experience may well differ. :-) Terry Farrell On Nov 21, 2010, at 9:13 AM, William Monroe wrote: > I agree with David - no disrespect, Terry. But - it really is just > another piano. True what you say that S&S uprights can be > troublesome and perhaps a bit unique in how we have to tune them. > However, I'd suggest that the same can be said for a Baldwin > Upright, or a Knabe Grand, or a Schimmel upright (very nice, but > with my standard tuning technique they've given me fits once in a > while). Point being, every make has it's own idiosyncrasies, and > we've got to develop a technique to work with them all. So maybe it > would be more accurate to say that there will be a learning curve, > but it should be pretty steep. > > As with most of the work we do, you've just got to be willing and > able to adapt your technique to the job at hand. Or, "it's just > another piano........." > > William R. Monroe > > > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Terry Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com > > wrote: > DAVID!!! Please be careful what you say! You stated that: > ...there is one particular model > > of Steinway I've heard technicians curse, but I never run into > them. > > > If you have not run into them, then how can you conclude?: > ...it's just another piano, and no more daunting than any > other. > > > My experience is that just about any S&S vertical - console, studio > upright, upright made since 1950 or so can pose a good bit of a > challenge to the average tech. If the pins are fairly tight or > tighter in the block, with no tuning bushings, I certainly find > these things to be a bit of a bear to tune and be confident they > will hold their tune. If yours is an old upright, it probably won't > be much different than any other old upright. I have about a dozen > S&S verticals in my regular service - a few old ones, but most since > 1950. > > But don't fear the piano. If you do find setting the pins to be > troublesome, just realize it will take a bit more time. Try > different motions with your tuning lever and see if you don't find > one that works better for you than others. There is a book that I > bought maybe ten years ago that addressed nothing but tuning lever > technique - what was the name of it? - maybe someone will chime in > with the name - it might be good to read that before tuning this > piano as it might give you some lever methods you hadn't thought to > try. > > Terry Farrell > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101121/e2ed6827/attachment.htm>
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