---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 11:17 AM 08/30/2001 -0400, you wrote: >I specialize in sssssslllllooooooowwwww pitch raises. As a matter of fact, I >am an expert. Although I am ssssslllloooooowwwwwwwly losing my touch :-). >My average pitch raise is 30 to 35 minutes. It was not that long ago that >they were all taking me 50 to 60 minutes :-(. Even a one hour pitch raise >with proper use of an ETD (in my case the SAT) results in a very accurate >pitch raise. > >Wouldn't adding additional tension to a string cause it to slowly stretch a >tad after the initial tension increase? I have always assumed that to be the >case when chipping the piano. I know it happened that way on my mother's >clothes line (he said, setting himself up). > >Terry Farrell Pitch raising is wholesale tension application. Get it down to 20 minutes or less. Tune from there. A pitch raise and rough tuning - one hour. Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jon.page@verizon.net http://www.stanwoodpiano.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/12/1d/cf/12/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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