Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Humm,
That sounds like a good story        &
clark.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?


> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- 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.)
> >
> >
> > >        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.
> >
> >
> >
>