Decker Bros 11970, would you???

[Billbrpt]

In a message dated 4/28/98 7:46:41 PM Central Daylight Time,
 nicho@lascruces.com writes:

<< and ...Would you raise the pitch? >>

I would suggest very carefully establishing and maintaining the pitch at -20¢.
 It is a reasonable compromise and the instrument may well have been designed
 for that pitch.

While there are many pitch raises you can and should do by just jacking it
 right on up, don't do that with this one.  Go 10¢ at a time.  It will, of
 course, take numerous passes to do this, each one 20-30 minutes.  Decide how
 much you are going to do between you and the customer.  The decision should be
 on how much she wants to pay for this tuning and how long and hard you want to
 work on it on any given day. 

This is a very special instrument and so the amount that it costs to get it
 tuned at whatever pitch it ends up being should be a very special price
 ($$$!!!).  Go for it!
(If she can't handle that, tell her you know of a nice Kimball Console that
 you can tune once a year for her at Standard Pitch and at the going local
 rate).

Bill Bremmer, RPT
Madison, Wisconsin