At 10:05 AM 9/6/96 -0400, you wrote: >Dear All, >In a situation with an orchestra and piano, yes the difference can be noted >if the orchestra is at 442 and the piano is at 440. Ask me how I know <G>. Would you mind telling me how you know!? I love all of these stories. >When an orchestra demands that the piano be tuned to 442 or higher, I comply. >I charge for two pitch raises and two tunings to get it to stabilize at 442 >and two pitch lowers and two tunings to get it back to stability at 440. It >is truly amazing how often the orchestra management will agree to use 440 >instead of 442 when given options. > >Gina Dear Gina, Just a question... Someday I would like to be a concert tuner, and I recently was asked to tune the Steinway D at our local college. It was very sharp, and I did three tunings to lower it to A-440 and then to stabilize it. It was my best tuning ever. But how frequently do you have to tune your concert pianos to maintain them at A-440? I would really appreciate knowing that so I can make recommendations to our local college. Sincerely, David A. Vanderhoofven dkvander@clandjop.com Joplin, Missouri, USA Associate Member, Piano Technicians Guild web page: http://www.clandjop.com/~dkvander/ *****P.S.***** The web page is finally up again!
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