| Piano Tuning - Up a semitone... [message #67210] |
Sat, 22 April 2006 01:29  |
Kim
Messages: 1246
Registered: October 2005
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Surely somebody here can fill me in on this.
I'm really after one basic peice of info.
I have a piano here, and it's got some sentimental value as it's the piano
I learned to play on from age 5 to 20 or so. Thing is it's down half a step,
or 90% of half a step. At the moment I don't like to play it, because while
I don't have perfect pitch per se, I have enough of it for it to annoy me
when something is flat. The piano is no real use to me as is, so I want to
get it back to 440.
What's going to happen? I've heard that when a piano has been flat for a
long time they tend to slip back. What I want to know is, is it like a guitar?
Is it safe for me to assume that it's just going to keep slipping and need
three or four tunes before it will settle on pitch? Or will it never tune
to pitch?
If it's just a matter of tuning it several times I'm willing to get cracking
and get it tunes to pitch. Indeed it would probably increase the amount I
would practise jazz if I had a real piano at 440 to practise on.
The secondary question... what's to stop me grabbing the nearest chromatic
tuner and a spanner and giving it a bash myself. Obviously it would take
me a while, but is there any real trick to it. I mean if it's going to slip
back out of pitch, I figure even if I do a bad job, I might as well life
it up to around 440 and let it sit for a month before I get a real guy out
here. Even if I do a bad job and it's not particularily good to play, surely
I'm better off to have it close to 440 as a start point, rather than flat
a semitone?
And while I'm at it, anybody know anything about fixing pianolas? ;o) When
you start to pedal, a number of keys play when they're not supposed to, and
it's leaking a fair bit of air... ...surely nothing some gaffa can't fix?
;o)
Cheers,
Kim.
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