pitch raising reply

[pianoman]

Dear Jim,
Rest assured I do not "inch the pitch up".  It comes up all the way to
A-440 at least on the very first pass and at least that each time it is
passed over.  Doing 3 tunings over 3&1/2 months gets the piano in a stable
used to being at A-440 mode for the future.  Please re-read my earlier post
on pitch raising-long.
Inching up gets you no where except inches.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"I'm on my way towards the mighty light of knowledge".

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> From: JimBirch@aol.com
> To: lesbart@juno.com; owner-pianotech@ptg.org; pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re:  pitch raising
> Date: Sunday, February 15, 1998 8:22 PM
> 
> Leslie, my practice is to do a pitch raise in one sitting.  I do not have
the
> time to take two time slots to do a job I can do in a slightly lengthened
time
> slot.  I also think it unfair to charge the client for the unnecessary
time.
> I find that the piano, depending on the brand, can be raised to pitch and
fine
> tuned with stability.    There are times when the high treble must be
tuned a
> third time. I'm not the brave one who greatly over stretches, however the
> tuning ends up where I want it to be.  
> Some of those technicians who take two or three visits, inch the pitch up
and
> thus never achieve stability.  In most cases where the last tuning was
ten
> plus years old,  a rough tuning sounds 300% better to the client.  In the
> East, Mother Nature will distroy the best of tunings in a matter of
months.
> Clients are encouraged to have a followup tuning before the six month has
> passed. Even when a year has passed, the piano can usually be tuned in
one
> pass.
> 
> Jim Birch, RPT