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HI there-

I have a technician scheduled to come out and tune my new (well, new to me- 1995) Petrof grand in about 3 weeks- While he's here, I'll have him also examine the piano, as it most likely needs voicing, regulation, etc to optimize. I just bought it a couple months ago.

I asked if we would do all that on the same day, as I wasn't sure how it works. Unfortunately, he only has time for the tuning on that particular day, as he also has other appointments, and if we decide to do more work on it, he'd just come back a different day. In which case I'd just schedule him to come back at his next available time to do the additional work.

My question is- when he returns soon after the initial tuning to do other work like possibly voicing, regulation, string leveling, & etc, would the piano need to be tuned AGAIN after all that work is done? Is it kind of a waste to do the tuning first, if he's going to come back anyway? Or does it only need to be tuned once?

thanks- just trying to figure out the best way to do this

Of the work listed, the only one that would affect the tuning is string leveling.

It is impossible to say what all the work that your piano needs is without seeing it. It might be that tuning it once, and then tuning it again not long afterwards is a good idea. It never hurts to tune your piano more often, but it may be that only touch-up or less is necessary.

Greetings,
If you don't have him tune it, you will need to pay for the time it takes for him to examine the piano, so I think you should have him tune it, and then decide on a course of action. I never plan on regulating and voicing a piano the first visit. I will tune, or pitch raise and tune, fix pedals, and small stuff, but there are too many aspects of regulating and voicing to blank out the time to do them without seeing the piano.
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Perfect, thank you everyone!

He will probably tune it again before the voicing and regulation which is a good idea so that the unisons are as clean as possible. Probably no charge, included in the voicing/regulation.

That's how I would do it.

The regulation change slightly the way the piano is tuned.
A final refined tuning will be better .

Because voicing and regulation change the synchronization between key bottoming and hammer impact.

I would not really voice before regulation. There are too much tone parameters that change, plus they can be uneven before regulation.
A first tuning, regulation, then strings and hammer work, tuning then voicing and tuning, possible tuning tweaks at the end.

I do that little by little when tuning if the piano is not badly out of condition. Or plan a major work day, leaving some lighter operations for newt tunings.

Rarely the time allowed is enough unless the piano is visibly in bad condition and I can propose 1,5 2days work.

Depends of the amount of work done by tuners, some are very efficient to keep piano in shape. I generally do not see those then, as my competitors do not see the pianos I follows.

please do not allow any power loss with voicing or you will have a too clear piano.