![]() Considering that the piano was built almost half-a-century before Benjamin Braddock was given the sagacious advice of “plastics” in The Graduate, it should be no surprise that composite materials used in the 1920s were particularly weak and brittle. #Piano tuner fort collins crackedThe shop vac was also most useful for cleaning up debris from the next task: removing the chipped, faded, or cracked keytops (which were all of them). With the brush attachment plopped onto the end of the air-sucking wand, decades of dust and dirt were resigned to the black hole known as the vacuum canister. Much like for a car, Step 1 of cleaning the innards of a piano entail busting out the shop vac. ![]() Especially since I broke a string! (B natural of the second-to-the-last-octave.) No worries though: I hardly have to use the keys in the extreme octaves anyhow with my newfound tuning skills I can “touch up” individual notes at will and I imagine that replacing the broken string is no more difficult than replacing distributor points!Īfter I had tuned the piano such that merry melodies no longer were turned melancholy by being half-a-key flat, I was amply inspired to do some interior cleaning and restore part of the venerable machine’s exterior. Supposedly, the electronic tuners are only tuned 100% precisely for middle C (440 hz) and start getting more and more inaccurate the farther down the keyboard you get.Īlas, not being blessed with a Mozartan sense of pitch, my handiwork at the far ends of the scales was less than impressive. ![]() Sometimes the CA-30 could not “hear” the note, and sometimes when it did, it displayed an erratic reading. For the lowest and highest octaves, possessing perfect pitch is especially useful, since the $13 electronic tuning device-while great for the middle octaves-wasn’t particularly so. ![]()
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