Tuning and Microtonality
Speaking of Tuning and Microtonality... Have you ever happened to “prepare” instruments …. Difficulties? Costs? Contraindications? I am opening this discussion and thanks in advance, I have...
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Hello, I tuned an old grand piano. It was not possible to tune it according to the correct tuning. I ended up with a terrible sound (wrong harmonics?). However, when I tuned the bass lower t...
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Thesimon
Blindness
I was there tuning when suddenly, instinctively, I closed my eyes to better focus on the third sound. Like a thousand other times, as in many other places always different and yet so much li...
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Video of a piano tuned with non-equal temperament
I came across these videos, where it is written that the instrument is tuned with an "Unequal temperament", temperamento ineguale (did I translate that correctly?) or perhaps "non equabile",...
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Don Gilmore's thermal tuning system
Hello everyone, a special greeting to Paolo and Simone; I apologize for not having intervened in the forum for a while (you might say, who cares), anyway, I would like to open a discussion o...
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Waiting times for tuning?
I purchased a used piano a few days ago (a few days ago in the sense that it has already arrived at my house) and I can't wait to tune it. Now, there are those who have told me to wait a bit...
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pianoexpert
Buying a new tuning key?
As mentioned in other posts, I am a pianist who is also passionate about tuning. A few years ago, I purchased one of those beginner kits to tune my upright piano, a Yamaha U3. Now I was read...
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pianoexpert
Video On Broken String Replacement
Hello, i have made a video on replacing a string in a grand piano. i hope it can be useful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6R9ymyqExM Regards
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pianoexpert
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Thesimon
Very Hard Ankles
Yesterday I tuned a pf (the previous tuning took place about 10 years ago), everything went well but I couldn't move two tuning pins in the treble section, or rather, I was afraid of breakin...
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Thesimon
Plucking The Choir
Sometimes, so as not to disturb others, especially at night, I limit myself when tuning the pf (particularly the chorus) to plucking the strings, having first blocked all the relative keys d...
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pianoexpert
Duplex Scale Tuning
Dearest Pianoexpert, sotto questo sole da deserto e aspettando la partita di stasera, mi trovo a chiederti un parere in base alla tua grande esperienza. I happened to try a Yamaha C3, which...
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Thesimon
Is My Piano Out of Tune?
Dear friends of the forum, many people, before asking me to tune their piano, ask me the fateful question: " DOES MY PIANO NEED TUNING? " I would like to be able to make my humble contributi...
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Don't Look Back
A tuner told me: avoid rotating the ankle counter-clockwise but always reach the right point while going uphill without pulling more than necessary. Pianoexpert, Piano tuner..., do you agree...
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Sergio
Corriere
. . .Maybe I got the wrong section . . . Excluding piano retailers who also perform the delivery, do you know if there are couriers that handle the transport and delivery of pianos?. If you...
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Doubts About the Piano Sound
I need your opinion, but I hope to be able to explain my problem well; I have also seen the videos about the piano, excellent videos by Maestro Ferrarelli, but I still cannot understand. So,...
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Gianfranc0
Hammering Smoothing
Dear friends of the forum, on youtube I saw an American tuner shaving the hammer rail with this brass toothbrush. What do you think?
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pianoexpert
My Piano is Always "out of tune"
Hello Pianotuning, everything you say is true; as someone who tunes my own piano, I can no longer tolerate those beats that I sense at certain points during performance, in any musical instr...
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Favorite Ear?
greetings to all the friends of the forum . . . .......watching the video on tuning, I realized that in the first part of the video, Paolo turns his head to the right, consequently offering...
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pianoexpert
String Vibration On The Bridge
Schulze Polmann piano from 40 years ago, with strings and hammers changed about 5 years ago, played 2-3 hours a day. After some tunings, some of the high-register strings have changed timbre...
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Can a Piano Be Un-tunable?
Hello, I have been following this site and this forum for almost a year and I believe that your experience, passion, and impartiality can best answer my question. A few months ago, I purchas...
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pianoexpert
Honest Price For A Tuning
As the title suggests: I have always dealt with tuners who, unfortunately, even if expressly asked, give me quotes of "about", to say nothing else. How much does a piano tuning cost? Hammer...
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Latest post F Francesco
The 440 Or . . . .
DEAR PIANOEXPERT, In my tuning interventions in the areas of Pisa - Lucca - Livorno, I often find myself discussing, with colleagues or people in the sector, the tuning pitch of the A of the...
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maquieto