If you want to quantify the corrosion on an old piano the best test is not the appearance but the feel. If the plain wire strings are still smooth to the touch they're probably going to render smoothly ...
417Hz is close to 100 cents below 440Hz. Is there any chance the piano was accidentally (or intentionally) tuned a half-step flat before it was moved? Otherwise Fenton's hypothesis that the strings ...
Chris, to have a 12% EMC, I'm calculating you suggest keeping the piano at 65% humidity? This seems excessive to me, and this is bad for the strings. I tuned a piano today in an 1806 log cabin in the woods ...
Spring Cleaning, Part 2: Closer to Home
By David Stoneman, RPT
PTG President
Last month, I wrote about how the organization
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