June 20

Dampp Chaser Pads – Before and After

Here are some photos of Dampp Chaser pads on a piano I serviced today. I thought you might find it interesting to see the quality of mineral deposits That the pads can collect. Surprisingly, the pads still wicked water, but I changed them anyway. BEFORE AFTER Notice the water line just rising on the right pad.

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Test Your Ears for Piano Tuning! It doesn’t matter how you tune a piano – with an ETD or by ear – if you can’t hear beats, then you can’t tune a piano well.Beats are part of bad unisons and they are part of every test you will ever do to test the ETD. (You

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Setting F3-A3

Beginning technicians are often advised to initially set F3-A3 to 7 beats per second (bps). Mathematically F3-A3 = 6.9 bps in equal temperament so it’s a good guess.After using the skeleton or contiguous M3’s also known as Jack’s Stack, we can refine F3-A3 to be more what the piano needs, but 7 bps is a

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How to Regulate a Piano!

I often read questions on piano technician forums from technicians asking how to regulate a specific piano. For example, recently someone posted this.“I’m regulating a piano and the book says to regulate blow distance at 1.5 inches”or“I can’t find any regulation specs for this specific piano in any books” The writing of these books implies

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