DIY piano tuning. Have you done it?

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  • Nick Armstrong
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    • Nov 2010
    • 26535

    #31
    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    You will all be pleased to know that I forked out and paid a professional tuner to pop out and do the deed (and get it up to a decent pitch!)

    I forebore to add yet another cry to the chorus recommending against you fiddling before you tinkle....

    As one who has started to tinkle much more of late (I battled through a couple of Shostakovich Preludes and half a Fugue yesterday! ), feeling the fingers coming back to it and looking forward to doing much more in the very near future, I wish you all joy of it !


    Originally posted by Roslynmuse View Post
    ...and, when I was a child, the piano tuner asked my mother to heat the poker in fire in order to do something unspeakable to some part of the instrument...

    It was never the same again.

    And we found a different piano tuner...

    Ah yes - the "Edward II School of Piano Tuning" ...

    Closed down soon after, I understand.

    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      #32
      Originally posted by Caliban View Post
      I forebore to add yet another cry to the chorus recommending against you fiddling before you tinkle....


      As one who has started to tinkle much more of late
      It's an age thing



      Ah yes - the "Edward II School of Piano Tuning" ...

      Closed down soon after, I understand.

      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • Eine Alpensinfonie
        Host
        • Nov 2010
        • 20570

        #33
        Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
        Fascinating, but crazy!

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        • pastoralguy
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7758

          #34


          Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
          Fascinating, but crazy!

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          • cloughie
            Full Member
            • Dec 2011
            • 22120

            #35
            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            Fascinating, but crazy!
            A dummy keyboard with sound - what was the note it was tuned to?

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            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
              Gone fishin'
              • Sep 2011
              • 30163

              #36
              I was quite enjoying it, until that android logo gave the rude and uncalled-for "salute" at the end.
              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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              • gradus
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 5607

                #37
                I have found that not all piano technicians (it isn't only the tuning that counts) are created equal and when you find the one who is right for your joanna, don't let him go - oddly I've never come across a female piano technician.

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                • MrGongGong
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 18357

                  #38
                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  I was quite enjoying it, until that android logo gave the rude and uncalled-for "salute" at the end.
                  I know, it's like that film that was circulating a while ago with an orchestra assembling one at a time, then turns out to be another bl**dy advert :sad face:

                  People in advertising are rather adept at stealing ideas and putting them in shiny packages

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                  • cloughie
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2011
                    • 22120

                    #39
                    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                    I know, it's like that film that was circulating a while ago with an orchestra assembling one at a time, then turns out to be another bl**dy advert :sad face:

                    People in advertising are rather adept at stealing ideas and putting them in shiny packages
                    ...or bastardising a tune you've loved for years.

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                    • ahinton
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 16122

                      #40
                      Originally posted by gradus View Post
                      I have found that not all piano technicians (it isn't only the tuning that counts) are created equal and when you find the one who is right for your joanna, don't let him go - oddly I've never come across a female piano technician.
                      Oddly enough, I did know one once and her name actually was Joanna (and no, she didn't make it up, any more than Ms MacGregor has).

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                      • Pianoman
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2013
                        • 529

                        #41
                        Originally posted by gradus View Post
                        oddly I've never come across a female piano technician.
                        Here's one of the best in the North of England...

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