Portable Piano
What You Must Do When Tuning Your Piano and Not Make Costly Mistakes
Familiarity with the art of tuning provides an education that is directly relevant to their ability to produce music and to maintain their instruments. It will also enable them to communicate intelligently with their tuners. Once people are educated to the advantages of tuned (maintained) pianos, they are more likely to call their tuners regularly.
The hardest part of learning to tune is getting started. For those fortunate enough to have someone teach them, that is obviously the best route. Unfortunately, piano tuning teachers aren’t readily available.
To begin, you will need one tuning lever, several rubber wedges, a feltmuting strip, and one or two tuning forks and ear muffs. Professional tuners nowadays also use an electronic tuning aid, but we will not consider it here because it is not cost effective and its proper use requires advanced knowledge of the fine points of tuning. The tuning method we consider here is called aural tuning—tuning by ear. All good professional tuners must be good aural tuners even when the make heavy use of electronic tuning aids.
Prepare for tuning by removing themusic stand so that the tuning pins are accessible (grand piano). For “setting the bearings”, you need to mute all the side strings of the triplet strings within the “bearings octave” using the muting strip so that when you play any note within this octave, only the center string will vibrate. You will most likely have to mute close to two octaves depending on the tuning algorithm.
The lever handle must point to the right so that when you turn it towards you (the string goes sharp), you counteract the force of the string and free the pin from the front side of the hole (towards the string). This allows the pin to turn more freely. When you tune flat, both you and the string are trying to turn the pin in the same direction. Then the pin would turn too easily,except for the fact that both your push and the string’s pull jam the pin against the front of the hole, increasing the pressure (friction) and preventing the pin from rotating too easily. If you had placed the handle to the left, you run into trouble for both the sharp and flat motions.
The most important consideration for a starting tuner is high quality tuning lever consisting of an extendable handle, a head that attaches to the tip of the handle, and an interchangeable socket that screws into the head. It is a good idea to have a piano tuning pin which you can insert into the socket using a vise grip so that you can screw the socket into the head firmly. Otherwise, if you grab on the socket with the vise grip, you can scratch it up. If the socket is not firmly in the head, it will come off during tuning.
Now you will never have to do this, but if you were to hypothetically turn the pin 180
degrees very rapidly, the heat generated at the
Yamaha YPT 320
interface between pin and pinblock would be sufficient to cook the wood and alter its molecular structure.
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