Pitch Raising to A440.......Or Not?

[David Love]

I don't think it's necessary.  If you do a pitch raise to get the pitch to
440 before you fine tune, the board reacts pretty instantaneously and a
further drop in pitch over time is not likely.  This is assuming they tune
it again within a reasonable amount of time which, by virtue of the piano
being so flat to begin with, does not seem likely.

David Love

----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: August 15, 2001 3:36 PM
Subject: Pitch Raising to A440.......Or Not?


> I do a lot of pitch raises. Many are significant - 30 cents to 150 cents.
> These are pianos whose owner do not have the need of exactly A440. The
last
> few I have raised to A441 or A442 - figuring this will help speed
stability
> at A440. I have not heard of others doing this. So I must be doing
something
> wrong!  ;-)
>
> Waddaya'll think of such a thing to do?
>
> Terry Farrell
>