Today was somewhat different in that I had three piano jobs that spread out in terms of both time and geography. The first one began at 10 AM at Bible Baptist Church in Monroe, GA. I had tuned this piano just a couple of weeks ago but now the piano was making a clicking sound whenever the middle keys were played. The repair was simple, just removed the action and tightened up a couple of support nuts for the hammer rest rail.
Job #2 was a noon tuning at a residence in Union Point, GA. The piano was a nice little Kawai Console that was about 25 cents flat from standard pitch. Usually when a piano is more than 10 cents flat it requires at least 2 tunings before the strings will actually remain at standard pitch after the tuning. But, in this case, money seemed to be an issue so I went ahead at pulled it up to standard in just one tuning with the client's understanding that the tuning may not hold as well as it would had I done 2 tunings. It turned out OK, hopefully it will stay put for a while.
Job #3 was at 4:45 PM at Morgan County High School in Madison, GA. This was an old Baldwin F Grand that is located in the school auditorium. There were some keys sticking in the midrange of the piano, so I pulled the action, spaced 4 hammers and then tuned it to standard pitch. Thankfully, I had tuned the piano this past fall prior to school starting, so the tuning was still in pretty good shape.
Got home at about 7 PM. It made for a pretty long day.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Wednesday, 1/20/2010
Tuned 2 pianos today. The first one was for Trinity Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Loganville, GA. This church meets in a strip mall store front space off of GA HWY 81 as you are leaving Loganville and heading towards Lawrenceville. They had a nice Baldwin Upright Piano that tuned up very nicely. One note was sticking which I quickly fixed at no extra charge.
The second piano was in the sanctuary of Northminster Baptist Church in Conyers, GA. They have a Yamaha G6 grand piano that used to be a digital player. Somewhere along the way someone took off the player head and now it just serves as a regular piano. Very stable piano that also tuned up nice.
The second piano was in the sanctuary of Northminster Baptist Church in Conyers, GA. They have a Yamaha G6 grand piano that used to be a digital player. Somewhere along the way someone took off the player head and now it just serves as a regular piano. Very stable piano that also tuned up nice.
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