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1. The let-off adjustment screws are very difficult to reach on my Bentley Compact 85. I made an adjuster (out of an old steel badminton racquet) but it's really hard to squeeze in among all the gubbins. Am I doing this right? Do you have to remove anything before adjusting let-off? 2. Maybe the pro...

Here's the result of my first attempt at tuning.

https://audiomack.com/just-friends/song/youre-blase

Far from perfect I'm sure, but it's not painful to my ears.

This is what the tuner app PianoMeter shows, after tuning the mid range but before doing the bass and treble: https://i.imgur.com/LLnNpYv.jpeg I've now got the bass and treble more or less lined up with the curve, but the piano doesn't sound quite right to me. Then in the Haynes manual for the piano...

I've bought a Bentley compact for £100. It mostly works ok, I fixed a couple of sticky keys and adjusted the pedals, and came to realise what a weird old-fashioned sort of thing a piano is, all that felt and buckskin and chunky bits of wood. I did a first tuning using the free PianoMeter app. I have...