In a message dated 9/7/00 9:38:35 PM Central Daylight Time, pneely@thegrid.net writes: << List A customer called to have his piano tuned but said the last tuner would not bring it to A 440 How do you determine at what pitch you tune and which pianos should not be tuned at A-440. Thank you for your help. Pat Neely >> There are several factors that will determine whether or not a piano should be brought up to A440, and there have been many articles and posts written on this subject. But despite all that has been written, there is one that seems to be prevalent in the "real" world. There are tuners out there who are not skilled enough to know how to raise pitch on a piano. And therefore, they will tell a customer the piano cannot be brought up to A440. Or the tuner is too lazy to work at bringing it up to pitch. So when you look at the piano, and don't see anything that would indicate the piano shouldn't be up to pitch, go ahead and give it a pitch raise, and make the extra money. Willem
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