[musictlk] tuning a piano

[Tyler K. Thompson]

It's actually not to difficult, you can go pick up a cheap tuning hammer and 
wedges from practically any music store. It takes a while to get in to tune 
but it's not to hard, slip the hammer over the tuning peg... turn. For just 
a few notes you shouldn't have any real problem, after a while of tuning 
you'll tend to get burnt out, if most of the piano is in tune doing it by 
ear makes life easy. Otherwise you're looking at needing to go buy a digital 
tuner.

it's best to tune the middle of the three strings first, so put a wedge on 
either side. tune up the middle peg, left is down, right is up (pegs are 
vertical compared to strings on most pianos)

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jorge Paez
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12:55 PM
To: NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List
Subject: [musictlk] tuning a piano

Hi all:
Like I've  said previously,
I am a classical pianist by training,
and despite the fact that I'm exploring midi and digital music I still use 
my piano for my main compositions and practice.
My question is this:
I tend to tune my piano every once in a while,
but I notice there's always a handful of keys that get out of tune before 
the others
and I wish to be able to fix these problems myself,
leaving the option to hire a tuner when I really need it.
So,
how can I go about fixing minor untuning?

My piano is a babygrand.

Thanks,

Jorge



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