@MICKEYISLOWD 5 years ago (edited) I think piano players should really appreciate us guitar players as we have to do this all the time with our guitars often by ear as we tweak and tune between songs when we are playing live. Another thing we have to do is compensate our tuning because guitars can never be tuned perfectly due to the intonation problems inherent with out instrument. From the nut or open strings to the 7th or eighth frets guitar suffer from sharpness that is always there. Therefore if I play an Amaj chord and have this tuned perfectly then the Dmaj chord is always out so we have to choose which tuning we are happiest with or omit and mute usually the maj 3rds and/or 4ths. Acoustic guitars we flatten the open G string slightly because slightly flat notes sound much much better than any sharpness in there.
With modern tuning systems like the Buzz Feiten, or fret-wave technology guitars have never sounded better as these systems remove much of the inherent sharpness also if you use chorusing effects for electric guitars or acoustics then the out of tune-ness is masked because the chorus effect works by having the note doubled with a flat or sharp note which oscillates around the original signal causing the strummed notes to sound beautifully sweet. Also if you have two guitars in your band some guitar play well and in tune with each other where as others sound awful together due to the frets being in slightly different locations on the neck. All this bother yet we are willing to put up with it because you hold the guitar against the body and so you feel the guitar resonating with your chest which is hopelessly addictive and is the reason why they are still so popular. @ralphrobinson9502 4 years ago I wonder if he gets hand pain from playing those octaves like that... @brideshead78 7 years ago A piano tuner friend of mine says "what about tuning with a wedge? You didn't mention a wedge or the equal tempered scale?" @osasosas2982 4 years ago is it just me or he deliberately tuned it sharper? @JustMe-999a 7 years ago My dream is to get a real piano and then destroy my wurlitzer spinet in a hail of gunfire @billboring5199 10 years ago Get to doing it slotted faster @pianotuner0 4 years ago Well he is a comedian.useing a muting strip will disturb and stress the strings a Papps wedge with three different thicknesses are more advisable. Set the bearing scale the tuning octaves go down into the bass then reciprocate into the high treble because that's where the most stress is..tuning the piano in the middle to pitch chromaticly puts unnecessary stress and could snap the strings.if you use a tuning aid then chip by 10 cents will stabilizer the instrument quicker and safer. @richardyoung641 3 years ago Good points.....not too sure of the tuning result though.Majority on here gave high praise so what do I know. @DJPenguino51 8 years ago I've tuned a couple of Wurlitzer spinets and ugghh... the amount of "stretch" tuning, especially in the bass strings is extreme. Because of the extremely short strings, there is a LOT of inharmonicity. Getting back to the video, the piano definitely needs another fine tune. I still hear a LOT of out of tune unisons. @bigbadbillb 2 years ago Ha, ha...I own a Wurlitzer spinet. It's a pain trying to remove the action out of these. @guymandude999 3 years ago This guy screwed my wife, and I was furious, but it was the best thing that ever happened to our marriage. She was like a new person. @claudedespres4772 10 years ago what a tuner, Lol 5 @douglashatfield5676 4 years ago na great job @johnsimms3957 7 years ago I don't think that Boss tuner is accurate enough. 4 @grizzlythief 2 years ago The best piano is certainly not the one that's the biggest...it's the one you play. Give me a shitty spinet wurli that I play daily over a Steinway grand collecting dust any day. @killerpigeon75 5 years ago how to tune a spinnet Step 1: get rid of it @jozefm3382 4 years ago (edited) supermann - cirkus - many - @eliandrosouza5019 1 year ago sanks @brandondewitt1933 9 years ago Looks like it was tuned to 432 Hz reference... @Six_String_Ray 4 years ago Yess natures frequency..half step down @murphy903 3 years ago Julia Childs @MrSouthsilicon 4 years ago (edited) I have a confession to make... that boss guitar tunner is a hell of a handy little thing.. let me tell you what i did with it on the early 80s...I was an unsuccessful guitar player... also a window salesman ... a little dishonest successful one... so off i was selling windows putting the boss TU12 on the window glass and telling the prospect buyers : .. see..! . the needle moves, is because the heat of the room is going out of the house...i was saying that as loud as possible half way talking, half way singing... i sold so many windows with my secret weapon that i should build a statue to that little boss guitar tuner...! not to be entirely dishonest the thermal R factor on a vinyl double glass insulated window against an aluminum single glass was night and day... but the use of the tuner... yes, it was big time BS.... cheers from the county jail..! . but nope... i succesfully convince the judge that my boss TU12 was a great lying detector... and i was telling the truth...! nice tunning tips... thanks for your time and knowledge. you made a very boring job look very easy ...great ear and great skills, hats off to you Sir. @alexguo7343 7 years ago Wa wa wa let's get that out of there @lounichol5423 2 years ago What a nice guy, but he's started out tuning A3..... A440 is an octave up, A4!!!!!! @champ10ns08 1 year ago He likes to keep us on our toes 😂 @lounichol5423 1 year ago (edited) @champ10ns08 Hmmm... I guess...🤭 @joshbonner9409 6 years ago These pianos are horrible tin boxes! (I’m a piano tuner by the way) @jamesbonnefin5737 2 years ago Yes, so am I Josh. I told my friend John not to buy it, but he did. The wire was grey. I have better wire in the farm fences. I won't say any more except that he had the nerve to ask me to tune it! Most of those strings ended with 4 ends instead of 2!! @sirpauljohn4763 4 years ago 432… 1 @James.E.Newman.1966 3 years ago (edited) Some of the notes still sound out of tune to me when he plays them after tuning them especially the base notes right at the bottom end. The piano itself, to me, as a whole, has a really dull and poor sound. We had an art deco style Murdoch mini piano (similar to an Evestaff mini piano) that went F1 to F7, and it was totally rubbish sounding to me. I ended up losing interest in learning it as a child. @lonniemcfaul7985 1 year ago Julia childs @richardyoung641 6 years ago ? @3tataj 3 years ago Honky tonk,🤣🤣🤣 @4thMG 7 years ago Hahaha @imagencpd 6 years ago No lo afinaste, esta terriblemente desafinado aun. @alexrivera.churchpianist 4 years ago Sí lo afinó. No se si escuchaste bien pero dijo que esa clase de pianos no tenían un sonido "limpio" debido a lo chico que son las cuerdas. @333kv 8 years ago Seriously?!!!!!!!! 1
@clintjones9848 8 months ago Apparently my spinet has way more inharmonicity than grands. When I look at the display on his PianoMeter app, the notes are nice and stable when he gets them perfectly in tune. On my spinet, the pitches will be wavering all over the place with the fundamental spinning flat and the harmonics spinning sharp lol! 1 Bohumir Stehlik - pianobird · @BohumirStehlik 8 months ago @clintjones9848 Yes, there are plenty of compromises when tuning short strings. Try to tune it in 3-6 (listen to the 3rd partial of the higher note) and check fifths and thirds with the middle of the piano. 1 @clintjones9848 8 months ago Thx
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@fnersch3367 1 year ago My piano is 88 years old and was tuned in 1967. Maybe I'll try this. Looks easy. @j.davidtaylor2565 1 year ago The first hundred tunings are the hardest. My mentor taught me that and it was definitely true when I started tuning 2 @amezcuaist 3 years ago When I was 5 in school the Nun led a blind tuner in to tune the piano while the whole class kept quiet . Imagine finding all the tuning pins without seeing them . 1 Bohumir Stehlik - pianobird · @BohumirStehlik 3 years ago Hihi... Imagine to see shape of the metalic laque after repeated tuning of a piano. @amezcuaist 3 years ago On the video I watched the top octave part to see the gentle pressure down on the hammer handle to drop the frequency . I just discovered that for my top octave . 1 Bohumir Stehlik - pianobird · @BohumirStehlik 3 years ago Yes, you need to tune slightly higher amd the to push the pin little bit in the direction of the string to setle down the pin to get stable tuning.
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@popoymotmot 1 year ago We’re you able to play the piano before this tune up? Did it sound horrible? 2 Bohumir Stehlik - pianobird · @BohumirStehlik 1 year ago Surprisingly it played quite ok for the fact that it hadn't been tuned dor 50 years. You can find a recording somewhere here.. 1 @popoymotmot 1 year ago (edited) @BohumirStehlik yeah I saw your video of the Brahms music from 4 years ago and that piano sounded amazing even without tune up for almost 50 yrs at that time! Amazing! How can it sound so good even without tune up for a very long time? 1 @BohumirStehlik 1 year ago (edited) @popoymotmot The piano was hidden in a corner, out of the sun and in a constant temperature and humidity. But the piano was half tone lower... 1
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Chris Welch More breakage occurs if the pressure points are not lubricated as Karl wrote . I'm not in America so don't see many Baldwins , but after 10 years those strings can get pretty welded to the pressure points so you think you are tuning the whole string but you are only tuning portions . Always tune down to break any seals and then the strings will be mobile again , but you have probably discovered that . Breakage aside the rule of thumb is that strings return a third , so a semitone low,100 cents will need to be overtuned 30 cents over ...,but if Baldwins have issue with that tune more conservatively and perhaps more passes .
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Aaron Dieringer Author Chris Welch this is good to know thanks! I will be sure to oil them before I tune up then. In my initial tuning I was however taking them down a tad before going back up.
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Chris Welch Aaron Dieringer did you hear any clicks as the seals broke
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Aaron Dieringer Author Chris Welch no weird sounds or clicks that I recall honestly. It pitched down and up smoothly.
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Chris Welch Aaron Dieringer so maybe the strings hadn't bonded in any way . This also happens to hinges of garden gates which aren't used much for 6 months . We live in 50 to 70% humidity here . Probably never happens in Nevada or Arizona .
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Jamie Strong Chris Welch A Baldwin 243, nice older performance pianos. A440 is standard.
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Chris Welch Jamie Strong I'll have to look out for that model.
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Aaron Dieringer Author Jamie Strong sorry, rookie question, is 243 referring to the serial? If so I should clarify the serial shows 240. I know it’s hard to make out from the picture I posted.
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