Piano Index & Glossary

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  • Tail of a piano -- The back, rounded back end of the cabinet.
  • Taking the bearing -- Measuring and recording the downbearing for future reference before a technician takes the strings off the piano.
  • Teflon bushings -- A flange bushing made from teflon instead of wool to reduce ware. Steinway designed teflon bushings for their permafree action. Teflon bushings were produced on Steinway grands from the early 1960s until the early 1980s.
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  • Tenor -- An abstract term referring to the section of the piano below middle C parallel to the tenor voice.
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  • Tonal quality -- The overall sound quality of a piano, a phrase referring to a subjective impression of the sound of a piano or other musical instrument.
  • Tone -- The cumulative presence of a sound while experiencing its various attributes in order to make a determination of how pleasing the sound is the listener.
  • Tone regulating -- Another phrase for Voicing where the technician attempts to achieve a consistent and pleasing sound from one hammer to the next across the entire keyboard.
  • Touch -- The overall responsiveness of a piano's action to the person playing the piano.
  • Touch weight -- The measured amount of weight it takes to start a key moving downward.
  • Trapwork -- The system of levers on the underside of the piano that connect the pedals to their respective functions. Each pedal has its own system.
  • Treble -- The upper register of the piano generally above middle C.
  • Tubular metallic action frame -- A hammer or wippen rail made out of a single molded piece of metal tubing filled with a wooden dowel.
  • Tuner -- A professionally trained piano technician skilled in tuning the piano.
  • Tuning -- The process of adjusting the tension of the piano strings in order to control interval relationships that will produce a consonant sound that is pleasing to the listener.
  • Tuning fork -- A specialized metal instrument used to provide a consistent source of vibration usually at the rate of 440 vibrations per second.
  • Tuning hammer -- A specialized wrench used by a piano technician to turn the tuning pins on a piano during the tuning process.
  • Tuning pin bushings -- The small wood lining for the inside of the hole in the plate in which the tuning pin sits. The plate bushing supports the pin without it having to touch the metal rim of the hole in the plate.
  • Tuning pins -- Adjustable high tensile strength steel shanks that are set into the pinblock in order to attach the strings to the piano. The piano tuner turns the pin with a special tool in order to tune the string.
  • Twisting bass strings -- The action of removing one end of a bass string from the hitch pin then turning the string in order to tighten the copper wrap surrounding the string.

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