Charging for Pitch Raises

[William R. Monroe]

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I was reading an old essay (PTJ August '90) by Rick Baldassin regarding =
Piano Tuning Stability.  Within that article, Rick writes about tuning =
for a concert and remarks that after a rehearsal, the treble was really =
out.  'Why?  The treble notes were too far out of tune to create a =
stable tuning in one pass on the tuning.'  He stated that when he tuned =
the instrument prior to the rehearsal, the 6th and 7th octaves were =
flat, 'maybe as much as four cents.'

So, in a nutshell, if your piano is four cents flat, your tuning will =
not be stable (for a concert level tuning). =20

My questions:
 1.) Really?  Is four cents flat too much to get a stable concert =
tuning?

2.) For our regular clients, when do we begin charging for a pitch =
raise, 5 cents, 10 cents, 20 cents?  I realize that neither all clients, =
nor their instruments will require this level tuning, but where do we =
draw the line and say we must raise pitch to get a stable tuning?

I am very interested to hear as many opinions on this one as possible.

Thank you,

William R. Monroe
PTG Associate
Salt Lake City, UT

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