Just felt like sharing.
Night all!!
Full Version: Just Had My Piano Tuned!
Now it's all lovely sounding again hurrah!!!!!
Just felt like sharing.
Night all!!
Just felt like sharing.
Night all!!
QUOTE(DawnF @ Feb 23 2009, 10:40 PM) 
Now it's all lovely sounding again hurrah!!!!!
Just felt like sharing.
Night all!!
Getting mine done tomorrow - can't wait, it is sounding ghastly!! 
Mine's being done next week.
Mine needs to be done and I have got round to finding somebody to do it - just ned to phone them now!
Lovely lovely... nothing more appealing than a tuned piano! 
tuned mine more than a week ago and some keys are off again, sad... 
Must be that time of year or something.
Awaiting the knock at the door as I write...
Anyone had their piano toned as well as tuned? i changed tuner and the new one suggested my yamaha needed toning. I think it got holes punched in its felt on the hammers and he told me the piano would sound odd for a bit.
A couple of weeks later on one note still sounds odd, Is toning a good idea???
A couple of weeks later on one note still sounds odd, Is toning a good idea???
QUOTE(meavy @ Feb 24 2009, 04:33 PM)
Anyone had their piano toned as well as tuned? i changed tuner and the new one suggested my yamaha needed toning. I think it got holes punched in its felt on the hammers and he told me the piano would sound odd for a bit.
A couple of weeks later on one note still sounds odd, Is toning a good idea???
Never heard of it sorry!
My piano sounded like it should do today as played very capably by Oldnotes.
It sounded REALLY nice!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, happy pianist - 2 freshly tuned pianos in the house!
Wishlist for when I am rich and famous includes having my piano tuned every week - I would hire a manicurist to come and do my toenails at the same time - I could lie back and chat to my tuner while being beautified - perfect!
Wishlist for when I am rich and famous includes having my piano tuned every week - I would hire a manicurist to come and do my toenails at the same time - I could lie back and chat to my tuner while being beautified - perfect!
QUOTE(meavy @ Feb 25 2009, 12:33 AM)
Anyone had their piano toned as well as tuned? i changed tuner and the new one suggested my yamaha needed toning. I think it got holes punched in its felt on the hammers and he told me the piano would sound odd for a bit.
A couple of weeks later on one note still sounds odd, Is toning a good idea???
I had the holes punched in the hammer felt before too. It is termed as "voicing", and that procedure should make the felt "softer", and hence the note hit less "sharp" and "bright". If you want the note brighter, I think there is a another procedure that involves some chemical liquid that can harden the felt.
Voicing did not help my problem, because I heard a "ting", which I later found to be inherent in most acoustic pianos, including grands. I was just not accustomed to a real acoustic, as I had only a digital and a very "blurred" 20-year-old acoustic before that. So there was no problem, and hence nothing to be fixed.
But tuning did help a lot.
QUOTE(SueHM @ Feb 25 2009, 07:42 AM)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, happy pianist - 2 freshly tuned pianos in the house!
Wishlist for when I am rich and famous includes having my piano tuned every week - I would hire a manicurist to come and do my toenails at the same time - I could lie back and chat to my tuner while being beautified - perfect!
OH... how lovely! We call such a person with such a life a "tai-tai", meaning a "rich man's wife".
Sign me up...
QUOTE(meavy @ Feb 24 2009, 04:33 PM)
Anyone had their piano toned as well as tuned? i changed tuner and the new one suggested my yamaha needed toning. I think it got holes punched in its felt on the hammers and he told me the piano would sound odd for a bit.
A couple of weeks later on one note still sounds odd, Is toning a good idea???
A tip - Never add toner to your piano!
Mole
Out of curiosity, how often do you all have your piano's tuned or do you just have them done, when tuning is noticeably out? 
Every six months
It was two years since mine was done and my tuner said it wasn't that badly out. (It was to my ears!!!) So many people must have their's tuned when really bad. He said yearly would be about right and what most people do. His parting comment was "ring me if you want it done in a year - I'll ring you ifit gets to 2" Which I thought was pretty good as I'd said that i hadn't realised it'd actually been so long. I'd though more like 18mths-2yrs not 2+. Life just rins away with me sometimes!!
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