Bob Wilson's comments on Pitch Raising

[Robert Wilson]

--- Joseph Garrett <joegarrett@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Bob,
> I totally disagree with everything you said. I work,
> regularly, on some of
> the worst England has to export to this country, and
> have found that with a
> little TLC, even these can be made to sound and play
> AT Their designed
> pitch.
> Joe Garrett, RPT
> 

Joe, 

I don't think we are talking about the same thing
here.  A piano made 100 years ago is likely to be a
3/4 iron frame, straight strung, overdamper with
probably rusty strings and would have been designed to
stand at the pitch of the day, i.e. international
pitch c517 - nearly a semi tone below the pitch we use
today.

I can see no justification to drastically increase the
tension on a 100 year old piano that was never
designed to stand at that pitch even when new. 
Perhaps if the customer wants the benefits of a modern
piano he should seek one rather than try and adapt a
Victorian/Edwardian instrument that has had its life
anyway.

Just my personal opinion, of course.

Bob Wilson.
London.

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