This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A "reasonable amount" is the key here. Location is also critical in = your choice. Our concert instruments stay at 440, no matter what artist = comes through the door. However, a chinook will blow in overnight & = nudge the pitch a cent or two. Even the "perfect pitch" folks can't = tell the difference. I let it go & then let it settle back down when = the weather changes again in a day or two. Other wise it's like pushing = jello back & forth through a keyhole & expecting it to come out the = other side in a nice, neat cube. Close your eyes real tight Wim -- then the light won't bother you. Otto Piano Technician University of Idaho 208-885-7918 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@aol.com=20 To: caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Floating pitch In a message dated 8/28/02 11:20:46 AM Central Daylight Time, = dkvander@joplin.com writes:=20 In past years I have attempted to tune pianos in the colleges I tune = for to=20 A-440 each tuning. This has caused me extra work (usually unpaid), = and=20 mental stress.=20 This year I have floated pitch on every piano I have tuned, and I = feel so=20 much happier! No one has complained about the pianos being at A-442 = or=20 A-443, and the pianos are behaving better. When the temperature is = 72=20 Fahrenheit, and the relative humidity is 83% indoors in the music = building,=20 floating pitch is the only way to go.=20 Thanks to Kent Swafford, I have finally seen the light!=20 David Vanderhoofven=20 With all due respect to Kent, I wholeheartedly disagree with floating = pitch. Our job, regardless of how much time and effort it takes, is to = tune pianos to the correct pitch, especially in a college situation, = where pianos are used by many different people, and are most likely used = to accompany other instruments. I could maybe see floating the pitch on = a piano that is used only in a home, where no other instruments are = being played. But not in a college setting.=20 I'm sorry, David, that you think you have found a new light. But it's = not a light I want to see.=20 Wim=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/51/2e/a6/60/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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