Hi Lim, If the piano were maintained at one pitch -- A-440, A-441, or A-442 -- your stability would greatly improve. If you're cranking it back & forth on a regular basis you ought to inform the management that there will be the need for three tunings: a pitch raise & tuning on the day before, a tuning on the day of the event, and a pitch lowering following the event. The raise & lower should be as stable and exact as you can manage -- then the concert day tuning won't be a horrid headache ( as it sounds like it may be). Good luck! Patrick Draine On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:04 AM, <limhseng at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ron(Aust) > Thanks for the input. The piano is about 6 yrs old and according to the > hall people it gets about 12 tunings a year and the pitch is tuned between > 440 and 442 depending on the user. So I presumed the backscale tension will > be high. When I took over the job 3 months ago the tuning was sometimes > stable, but many times no. I Will try your rub down way and pounding the > next time I tuned it. And am glad you are busy! > > Regards > Lim > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100923/61182ea6/attachment.htm>
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