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"How many 80 year old digital pianos are still working? " That comment's ringing in my ears now... how many 80 year old real pianos are still working? - well, compared to how many were made, probably not that many! Not that I'm sticking up for the electronics - if it did its job I wouldn't...

"How many 80 year old digital pianos are still working?" HAHA - give it another few decades before that carries any weight. However, pianos need tuning, digi pianos don't, plus I've taken it to gigs, by myself with no help loading and unloading - couldn't do that with the U3... that was th...

Hi, I have a Yamaha GT10 - well it seemed a good idea at the time! It's losing notes at the rate of about one a month for the last five months - first the note starts only playing when the key is released, then eventually dies altogether. I've taken the keys off and replicated a template that cuts o...

I'll give him a ring - thanks!

R

The tuner recommended by the shop hasn't mentioned there's any problem with drying out or loose pins, so either he doesn't know enough to spot that kind of problem, or there isn't a problem and he's just not tuning it too well. Either way, he's now tuned it twice and it's still not in tune, so I'm i...

H3105517

Pianoforte, Faringdon

The room's small but it's a dedicated music room, windows are rarely open even in summer to spare the neighbours cos I'm mostly in there to practise, and it's a dead end i.e. it's not a room you go through to get anywhere else - in short, there are no drafts and the humidity really only changes sign...

Hi, thanks for the reply. "second-hand U3" - Yes, the piano's from about 1980, I don't know if that classes it as "old". The tuner didn't mention anything about pins, or express any difficulty about tuning it - just seemed surpised that it was out of tune so soon after he'd tuned...

I've got a U3 that seems unable to hold pitch. The deal in buying the piano included the first tuning after 3 months; this didn't result in the piano actually being in tune... so I got the guy round again - when he finished the piano was roughly, vaguely, well, sort of approximately in tune, with a ...