[pianotech] How come?

[tnrwim at aol.com]

Have you considered that it may be a function of pin setting technique? In my own experience if I set the pins too heavily in the high treble, those notes will be sharp at the next tuning. Most people don't pound the high treble so I try to set the pins more lightly.

Tom Cole


 
Granted, sometimes I don't pay as much attention to the last couple of notes as I should, but it is very consistent. All the notes are always flat. Bad hammer technique would not be so consistent. 
 
Wim 






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From: Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sat, Oct 23, 2010 11:55 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] How come?


Have you considered that it may be a function of pin setting technique? In my own experience if I set the pins too heavily in the high treble, those notes will be sharp at the next tuning. Most people don't pound the high treble so I try to set the pins more lightly.

Tom Cole

On 10/23/10 1:35 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: 
I have quite a few customers that I tune once a year, like clockwork. The pianos are very stable, often off by less than one or two cents, all up and down the keyboard, xxcept for the top four or five notes. Invariably, these notes are low as much as 6 cents. When I first came here, I noticed that most pianos were a little flat in the top octave, and assumed the previous tuner just didn't get it right. But now I'm having the same syndrome. 
 
Recognizing that the middle of the soundboard fluctuates the most, and presumably the edges of the soundboard don't fluctuate at all, how come the last 5 or 6 notes in the high treble are going flat?
 
Wim




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