At 08:40 PM 11/28/00 -0800, you wrote: >Several years ago when we had our Hallet & Davis 52" upright tuned, I >noticed he brought it DOWN somewhere around 50-75 cents, maybe even 100 in >places! Our previous tuner hadn't used a meter at the time (but then I >was fairly young and inexperienced and not really paying much attention) >and I noticed this tuner was using a meter. It is currently very near >A-440 (regularly tuned twice a year until a few years ago when we stored >it at a friend's house. When we got it back in the house, I tuned it and >it was about 30 - 40 cents flat in the middle and only about 10-15c flat >in the bass and high treble) with about 3 badly out-of-tune (25-35c) unisons. correction: the 3 unisons are NOW out even though the piano is pretty much in tune. when it was OUT -- for fun I brought only the middle strings up part of the way leaving the unisons 15 to 30 cents out of tune to get a honky-tonk sound. >At 08:28 PM 11/28/00 -0500, you wrote: >> >>How high are you willing to tune a piano, when circumstances require it? >>A-442 would be about 8 cents high, right? I assume you would go there? >>Would you go 10 cents? 15?<< >> >> Greetings, >> I would be willing to go as far as the customer wants to pay for. A-444 >>is not unheard of on the international concert stage, but I must ask, Why? I >>do think that the bass strings may be damaged by going up 20 cents and then >>coming back down, especially if it happened several times. Anybody have >>evidence of this? >>Regards, >>Ed Foote RPT > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
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