Charging for Pitch Raises

[Avery Todd]

Hi William,

For concert work, which I do a lot of, I've heard that as little as 2 cents off
requires a second time over. For "normal" customer work, I've heard that 
anything
over 8-10 cents requires a pitch raise.

Avery
University of Houston

At 06:26 PM 04/16/02 -0600, you wrote:
>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).
>
>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