Improvisation no. 9

Today I tuned a bit more unusual branded upright piano, "Greb. Glaser Jena". Never heard of it myself, and this piano wasn't even very good condition so I had to think twice if I dare to tune it at all. First I had to adjust some hammers to strings, as some hammers didn't even hit all string in some unisons, and then I tightened all screws of action. There would've been a lot more action regulation needed obiviously but that was enough to get action to somewhat working condition. Tune was quite messy, but I did only one pitch correction before tuning, as I didn't really raise it but just even it out. I don't expect it to hold tune very well as there was one quite major crack on soundboard, and thus I didn't tune with highest priority but outcome is still pretty decent. Bass and middle sections were pretty easy to tune, but treble sections had pretty much friction on strings so that was a bit challenging, and there was also a lot false beats. By the way, action and keys were pretty noisy which tells that many parts are worn out, and that can be heard on recording aswell.

[@hearguitar262]

Sounding great

[@berserkpvp1820]

I think you did a great job tuning it based on what it sounds like. A few moments I liked are 0:20, 1:18, 2:18, 3:25, 5:07, 5:50, and 7:50. Im curious to know how you find all of these pianos to tune? Do you go to peoples houses and tune it for them?

[@Pianist203]

Thanks! I'm currently tuning at local music school, as I made agreement with the principal that I can tune there for my own practise and for school project on this summer. I have pretty much freedom to tune what ever pianos I want there, as I do it for free. I wouldn't bother to record any videos at peoples houses, but as it's summer now and at that school there's no any action, I have great opportunity to record videos freely.

[@berserkpvp1820]

Thats really cool! Well I look forward to more video.

[@Pianist203]

I actually find these improvs to be great memories of these pianos and tunings for myself, and it's nice to compare different sounding pianos. Overall I might actually like tone of this piano a bit more than Schimmel grand I played on my last improv, even though this piano is so much more inferior (excluding fact grand is almost always superior to upright mechanically).