On 15 Oct 2004, dave wrote

I want to make a glass sided case to show the workings of a double
escapment (grand )piano action. Is anyone out there breaking one
or have one for sale? I just want a single key (maybe two).Will
pay a reasonable cost+pp of course. (This sort of thing isn't
available on ebay :-) so apols if is OT)

Can't help personally, but if you rang 'round to the piano tuners in
your area you might find one with a lead to a junked grand or parts
thereof.

(The piano tuner I use here in Basingstoke has a sideline in
reconditioned pianos; I'd be surprised if that's not the case
elsewhere.)

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Cheers,
Harvey

(The piano tuner I use here in Basingstoke has a sideline in
reconditioned pianos; I'd be surprised if that's not the case
elsewhere.)

Roughly how much should it cost to have a piano tuned?

My mother's sounds like an East End knees-up and could do with a bit of
twiddling before Christmas.

Christian.

On 15 Oct 2004, Christian McArdle wrote

(The piano tuner I use here in Basingstoke has a sideline in
reconditioned pianos; I'd be surprised if that's not the case
elsewhere.)

Roughly how much should it cost to have a piano tuned?

It's just gone up from £40 to £42 (it was done last week). I have it
done twice a year.

My mother's sounds like an East End knees-up and could do with a
bit of twiddling before Christmas.

If it's really out of tune, it'll probably need at least two tunings to
get it back into correct pitch. (Once to get it in fairly good tune;
then you let it slide back out for a couple of weeks and re-do it
again.)

As this is DIY, though, I should mention that many years ago I owned a
piano that was so bad -- couldn't hold a tune at all -- that I couldn't
find a tuner who was interested in dealing with it. I bought a tuning
wrench (called a tuning "hammer", I think -- I still have it), and at
least got the strings into relative tune with one another -- albeit a
half or full tone down from where it should have been tuned.

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Cheers,
Harvey

I bought a tuning wrench (called a tuning "hammer", I think --
I still have it), and at least got the strings into relative
tune with one another -- albeit a half or full tone down from
where it should have been tuned.

I don't think it is that bad!

It's just that it evokes that lock-in at the pub for "roll out the barrel"
feeling, which isn't appropriate for Grieg or Rachmaninov.

Christian.

On 15 Oct 2004, Christian McArdle wrote

I bought a tuning wrench (called a tuning "hammer", I think --
I still have it), and at least got the strings into relative
tune with one another -- albeit a half or full tone down from
where it should have been tuned.

I don't think it is that bad!

It's just that it evokes that lock-in at the pub for "roll out the
barrel" feeling, which isn't appropriate for Grieg or Rachmaninov.

Oh, I dunno: I rather fancy the idea of "now I'm gonna play a li'l bi'
of yer honky-tonk Rokkers"...

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Cheers,
Harvey

It's just gone up from £40 to £42 (it was done last week). I have it
done twice a year.

Do you know how much extra it is to adjust the action? I imagine it is due
for that. The keys are all at different heights, for a start!

Christian.

On 15 Oct 2004, Christian McArdle wrote

It's just gone up from £40 to £42 (it was done last week). I
have it done twice a year.

Do you know how much extra it is to adjust the action? I imagine
it is due for that. The keys are all at different heights, for a
start!

No idea; sorry. (I've never needed to have that done, but I can
imagine it takes a tad longer than the hour or so it takes to do the
semi-annual tuning!)

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Cheers,
Harvey

In message , Christian
McArdle writes
(The piano tuner I use here in Basingstoke has a sideline in
reconditioned pianos; I'd be surprised if that's not the case
elsewhere.)

Roughly how much should it cost to have a piano tuned?

My mother's sounds like an East End knees-up and could do with a bit of
twiddling before Christmas.

Aren't you oop north ?

I have a friend who normally does mine for free, so I don't know, but
could find out

I have tuned my piano myself, and it was reasonably successful (but you
do need a reasonably good or trained ear) - I was quite surprised at how
well it came out with regard to even tempered tuning

One important question is whether you are ever going to play it with
other instruments, if not, you can tune it to the average of it's tuning
rather than trying to pull it up to concert pitch which would be more
difficult and would need several attempts over a period of time as it
settles down
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geoff