…struck me as I was listening to the recordings I made over the last couple of days with the PianoMic system.
My piano was in tune.
Now this may not seem much of an observation to anyone reading this, but the reason I’m mentioning it becomes obvious when the piano hasn’t been tuned or voiced for over just over a year. And the reason for that is not due to laziness or bad organisation or anything like that, but simply because the piano has not needed it.
I tested the tuning with my trusty iPhone, and the A440 is exactly that – A440.
Quite amazing. Not only that, but there was no sign of any detuning of the unisons – i.e. each string was still precisely in tune from the last time it was tuned. Additionally, the tone of the piano is still exemplary and there is no need to re-voice the piano in any way – it still plays just as well as it did a year ago.
Now I don’t wish to blow trumpets unnecessarily, but I really would like to see any other piano brand with the same stability of tuning. My piano gets played constantly, either by me or my students so there is no validity in the ‘leave it alone and it will stay in tune’ excuse.
This piano is simply amazingly stable in terms of tuning, action and voicing.