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Testing The Tuning Tests
Some of the most useful information to come out of the last years use of the proposed testing procedure is an objective analysis of the...
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Francesco
Jul 8, 20236 min read
Music Quality Stability Tone Touch Tune Cost Beauty Durability Serviceability
Music is the ultimate goal of the piano, an objective that sometimes gets lost among the tunings, regulations, voicings, etc., etc., etc....
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Francesco
Jul 1, 20236 min read
Tuning Instability
In speaking to our customers about what causes a piano to go out of tune, the most common subject is the weather. A change in temperature...
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Francesco
Jun 25, 20235 min read
Key Weighting
This post is intended to suggest a possibly lesser known “aid” for tuning the entire piano. Not included in this discussion are such...
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Francesco
Jun 17, 20235 min read
Prestressing Approach to Pitch Lowering
Piano tuning has been established as a specialty occupation for over 130 years. Now, more than any other time in our history, rapid and...
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Francesco
Jun 11, 20235 min read
Hammer Technique
When thought is given to hammer technique, consideration must also be given to the various elements that taken separately, may not appear...
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Francesco
Jun 4, 20236 min read
On Pitch Raising
Pitch-raising of the last few years has been turned into a bit of a circus. There is nothing inherently wrong with this as there has been...
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Francesco
May 27, 20237 min read
Lubrication of Piano Parts
When pianos are built, the builders concern themselves with lubrication of moving parts in a rather fundamental way. They are concerned...
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Francesco
May 21, 20234 min read
Tuning By Plucking
One useful technique I forgot to mention in last month’s blog post on treble tuning is plucking. If you are having difficulty hearing a...
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Francesco
May 14, 20235 min read
Key-Weighting and Tuning
My customer and piano teacher Jennifer C. from London Kensington asks: How can I improve the tuning with key-weighting on my Yamaha C3?...
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Francesco
May 8, 20234 min read
Advice for a Tuning Setback
My friend Peter W. from London, Ealing who is a novice piano tuner asks me: In the last few months, I have been having a setback in my...
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Francesco
Apr 30, 20231 min read
Piano Tuning Problems in the Upper Register
My customer Kathy M. from London, Fulham asks me: "Can you explain more about this tuning on the treble section? It doesn't really help...
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