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Topic: Unable to play quietly on untuned piano? (Read 1444 times)

kanacs

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Unable to play quietly on untuned piano?

on: January 10, 2023, 08:22:18 AM

My acoustic piano has not been tuned for more than 3 years, and today I finally played on it again.
I found out that besides being out of tune, the sounds are louder and I'm not able to play quietly.
Is this an effect of not tuning the piano for a long time?

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brogers70

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Re: Unable to play quietly on untuned piano?

Reply #1 on: January 10, 2023, 12:38:04 PM

Not sure, but (1) it's possible that being out of tune just makes the normal volume sound more unpleasant and thus it seems louder than it used to or (2) if it has not been tuned for years it is also possible that it is poorly regulated, and that can make it harder to play softly. Assuming you're going to have it tuned, it will be easy enough to ask the piano technician what might be going on.

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