Piano tuner on the playa

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:08 am

Barbie Death Village is looking for a piano tuner on the playa. We will be happy to pay you for your service. Let me know if there are any that will be back in 2011. I can even provide an early entry pass if that helps.

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:17 pm

Dr. Pyro wrote:Barbie Death Village is looking for a piano tuner on the playa. We will be happy to pay you for your service. Let me know if there are any that will be back in 2011. I can even provide an early entry pass if that helps.

Tuners are hard to find.. They are stranger than most burners..

I restored many smoke damaged piano.. Worked with a few tuners over 25 years.. They are a strange breed..

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:41 pm

I recognize that hoping to find one is, well, rarified air. Which is why I offered to pay. It's so specialized that to take them for granted, in the overall giving-burner sense, would be short sighted indeed. And besides, if I get it tuned before heading up to BRC I'd have to pay that person anyway, so I may as well look at it as part of the cost of living. I suppose.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:43 pm

Wouldn't you have to retune it after it gets to the playa because of changes in humidity and any shifts while being shipped?

unjonharley · Post by **unjonharley** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:50 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Wouldn't you have to retune it after it gets to the playa because of changes in humidity and any shifts while being shipped?

Every time you move one from house to shop and back..

Tuning is brcoming a lost art..

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:40 pm

http://piano.detwiler.us/

I can tune a bass if you need a bass tuner.

Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:37 am

Fishy, "being out of tune" is relative. Yes, it won't be worthy of Carnegie Hall, but by playa standards, if the song is recognizable, that's a huge leap, especially compared to what we had last year. Oh, don't get me wrong, the piano was fun and did the job, but since now this is our piano, we just want to make things a little bit better.

"Making Things A Little Bit Better" would be an excellent motto for Barbie Death Camp. Next to "Less tolerance, more decadence" of course.

oscillator · Post by **oscillator** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:34 pm

I suppose I can take a break from my Barbie Liberation duties to help out such a good nemesis - it'll be our little secret.

And yeah, wait until it is moved to tune it. Just be aware that some old pianos won't hold a tune, and the playa temperature extremes won't help either. But all pianos sound pretty good out there.

What kind of piano? Upright?? Spinet??? Concert Grand???? Will you burn it and/or trebuchet it later? If so and it is aimed at Apokiliptika, I may have to withdraw the offer, since out-of-tune doom is so much better.

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Dr. Pyro · Post by **Dr. Pyro** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 7:45 pm

Would never waste a perfectly good upright piano by having it hurled at Terminal Village. Bay Bridge Sue is too good of a friend and she might cut me off from the good stuff! I'll PM you with my vitals.

Elliot · Post by **Elliot** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 10:35 am

...especially compared to what we had last year.

I resemble that remark!

Point I want to make is that the piano in question sat uncovered during the rain. It was in decent tune right up to the moment the rain hit. It was even my best piano, of eight, to start with. And it has since dried out and returned to a better tune. Funny what moisture does. Seems the moisture in the wood can actually tweak the shape of the cast iron plate -- or at least the shape of the pin block? Lesson learned is to keep a rain cover near by at all times.

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