Left Side Detail. Those are little googly eyes glued onto the piano.
Key Cover Detail 3/3. Yes, that's painted.
Key Cover Open. That's the real keys.
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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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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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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