Tag Archives: piano tuning

This poor piano

This Yamaha from the 1980’s has had a hard life living in direct sun in a room over looking the ocean. So many cracks in the soundboard you can drive a truck through them. Strings and tuning pins have tons of rust I was afraid strings would pop! The ocean water had turned these brass …

An example of how not to do repair

I see a lot of attempted repairs. It becomes obvious which tuner/tech has been trained properly and who has not. This one takes the cake. I was a little worried to leave my business card in the piano for fear that the next tuner will think I did this hack job.

Cool Logo. . .

I always thought this “E” was a cool logo for the Everett Piano company

Pianos by Jay tuning at the Hebrew School in Newton

Agraffes in the wrong place . . .

at a piano tuning in Wellesly I noticed this “cupid” model Sohmer grand piano has agraffes at the bridge instead of before the dampers.  As the sound board flattens out the down bearing pressure at the bridge changes.  Now these notes a very “buzzy”.