I decided to tun our piano today. It's been so long that our piano tuner had died, so I bought a tuning hammer and some dampers, downloaded a tuning app, and got started. I've actually got quite good pitch, so what could go wrong?
Damn, I miss our tuner. This is hard work, and after a couple of hours, I had to back away for a while. But, overall, things were going well when I decided to go down to the single string section- which should be the easiest. So I'm tuning low C and just need to get about a half tone, gently tapping the hammer and POW!
So now I have a broken wire.
An hour break, some time finding replacement strings on the WWW, and I'm back at it I go up to the next to last octave where I can still hear the beats, and it's time to go bAck to the low notes. This time I"m REALLY careful, going slow, and bringing C2 up to pitch slowly, sooo slowly... but not slow enough. POW!!
Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? (Besides not finding another piano tuner).