![]() Not unusual, and not specific to Bostons. Do you know? On new Bostons, I've found tight pins that flagpoled badly enough to require some care when tuning them. As with most inexperienced techs, I suspect she's going through memorized motions that work well enough on most pianos but for some reason don't on new Bostons. If techs were having 1098 experiences with the Bostons, we would almost certainly, as with 1098s, have seen a number of complaints. If the dealer is genuinely concerned, he should pay you to assess.-Īnd I don't understand why people ask questions like this on the list. In either case, I would probably be somewhat disinclined to aggressively share this experience unless I had already run into dead-ends in trying to resolve them first with the manufacturer. If I were familiar with a lot of new Bostons, I'd probably be doing dealer prep or in an institution that had taken delivery of these. How does the dealer know this? Does he, himself, tune? Did Steinway tell him those 'old' problems were solved? What were they, and what was changed? Does he know this? The dealer claims that "those old problems have been solved in the new, improved Bostons." What does it mean that "we are working."? Why doesn't "we" agree to try tuning piano to see what "we" thinks? We are working with the Associate on tuning lever technique, humidity monitoring, etc. Subject: Tuning Stability in New Boston Pianos See if that affects perception of stability. Is the dealer complaining, or is this the tech's own concern? Best solution would be to note all variables, and select one to tune very frequently, for a period. It could be the tools, but that would then be more likely present as a general problem.Īs floor tunings, tech might not feel that they have the time to be mindful/careful enough. This was especially the case when having to do a significant pitch adjustment, which was more often the case than not.Īlthough I shouldn't, I will (with some continued levity) link this question to two recent threads ( 'Old Tuning lever' on Piano Tech - google list and Levitan C hammer, on Health-Related Issues). The tuning pins were generally quite tight, but any slight flexing seemed to immediately translate to the sounding length, thus, the pitch. I'm not sure about the grands, but my experience with the Boston uprights led me (and others, I recall) to conclude that at least part of the problem lay in the lack of friction between the top termination bar and the sounding length. tapping strings at various termination/deflection points? (let's skip the string-to-bridge issue, for now). Does he/she have any such problems with non-Bostons? Or, as 'floor-tunings', what are climate conditions? How frequently are they being tuned? moved? What is the current 'factory-prep' protocol? How many tunings before being shipped to dealer? How much 'termination-fixing', i.e. Stability problem could be linked to 'associate' status, meaning perhaps a lack of experience with a) Bostons, or b) all pianos. ![]() End of year mania, so if you're not busy flood water sand bags (good luck all), take these comments with some levity (I didn't intend to be punstering this close to year's end, but there it is).
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