Wim/Pitch raise experiment

[Greg Newell]

Dave, Wim and list,
    You may wish to start lubricating the strings with Protek CPL before
tuning these old beasts. I'm with Joe on this one. What good is a piano
that's perpetually flat in pitch? Isn't ear training just as important as
finger training? I raise pitch on these old beasties all the time. They
have all come through just fine without so much as a whimper. I'm sure
your also aware of how much livelier they sound when up to the pitch they
were designed for. Never fails to get a "WOW" from the customer.
    my two cents.

Greg

"David M. Porritt" wrote:

> Joe:
>
> What about the customer who doesn't want to take the chance on
> breaking strings.  I did a Cable spinet last week that was down,
> already had 3 broken strings and the customer (rightfully) didn't
> want to spend any more on it than necessary.  Should I tell her to
> forget about her recently started piano lessons and trash the piano?
> Or offer to bring it up, break some strings and fix them at my
> expense?
>
> Some of our dogmatic rules ocaisionally have to get modified out in
> the "real world".
>
> dave
>
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>
> On 1/9/02 at 11:08 AM Joseph Garrett wrote:
>
> >Wim,
> >You are such a woose! "Why chance it"?!! to get the piano at pitch
> and have
> >the tuning be more effective and relevant to making MUSIC! I
> maintain, if
> >the piano, (the whole piano), cannot be tuned to standard pitch or
> it's
> >designed pitch, then it needs, either to be repaired or trashed.
> It's just
> >that simple. Any tuner that, without total knowledge of the
> customers
> >needs,
> >(current and future), tunes a piano a 1/2 tone flat, usually because
> he
> >doesn't want a string to break, is not a good tech IMO. This is
> usually
> >because that tooner does not carry any string stock, etc. and
> besides,
> >usually couldn't fix a hang nail w/o drawing major blood.
> >Just MHO.
> >Joe Garrett, RPT
>
>
> _____________________________
> David M. Porritt
> dporritt@mail.smu.edu
> Meadows School of the Arts
> Southern Methodist University
> Dallas, TX 75275
> _____________________________

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