Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?

[Farrell]

Oh, gosh I wish I wrote it all down. I think it had a "Magic Touch" action, and "Unitized Construction". It likely also had a "Mezzo-Thermal-Stabilized Soundboard", but I saw no such claim. Maybe the sticker had worn off.

See, I wasn't just making that up, it's for real!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?


> Just out of curiosity, is there anything denoting the high performance model of the Winter?  A letter before the serial #, for example?..;-]
> 
> David I.
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> ----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
> From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Received: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:18:26 -0400
> Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?
> 
> >Hello Kevin. I was raising the pitch of a massive high performance Winter spinet
> >yesterday a full half-step. And I was thinking that it would go faster if I were to strip mute
> >the piano, PR just the middle strings, then go back a do the unisons. Do you do
> >Terry Farrell
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <ramsey@extremezone.com>
> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:30 PM
> >Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?
> 
> 
> >Joe, glad it works for you, however, I find that the bass requires a twenty percent
> >over-pull. Perhaps our methods differ; during a pitch raise, I tune the single bass strings
> >and one string of each bi-chord first, then I pull out the strip and tune uniso    Please
> >clarify.
> >  ----- Original Message -----
> >  From: Joe And Penny Goss
> >  To: pianotech@ptg.org
> >  Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:46 PM
> >  Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?
> 
> 
> >  Kevin,
> >  If the bass is about 30 cents flat I want to raise the note about three cents sharp (
> >about 10% ) of pitch. So with a SATlll that raises the pitch 25%  that would result in too
> >much over pull for me so I will set the over pull for 12 cents and roll the   I take only one
> >measurement at A2 to arrive at my over pull. Works very well for me.
> >  I use the 25% in the tenor and about C4 the 30% to the top then retune.
> >  On pianos 25% or less flat or sharp I use the Verituner 100 and its 10% bass, 30%
> >tenor,
> >  and 36% treble and retune.
> >  Joe Goss
> >  imatunr@srvinet.com
> >  www.mothergoosetools.com
> >    ----- Original Message -----
> >    From: Kevin E. Ramsey
> >    To: pianotech@ptg.org
> >    Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:40 PM
> >    Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?
> 
> 
> >    >
> >    >     All wound strings: 1/5 (Example: You test 10 notes, or so, and find
> >    them
> >    > about 30 cents flat. You would set your ETD to +6 cents sharp and tune
> >    those
> >    > strings to that setting.)
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> 
> >        Here's another little brain saver:  What if you're pitch raising a piano and want to
> >do a 20% overpull in the bass, and it's, say, 28 cent's flat. (let's see, one fifth of twenty
> >eight would be ......... ah........ ah........)
> 
> >        Take 28, and double it for 56. Move the decimal point over to the left one place.
> 
> >         5.6 is 1/20th of 28.
> 
> >        At least, that's how I do it.
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