Greg: What do you do if the customer (you do warn them ahead of time what _could_ happen, don't you) won't assume that risk? Do you raise the pitch and if a string breaks, replace it free? dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/9/02 at 5:29 PM Greg Newell wrote: >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 >> >> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** >> >> 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 >> _____________________________ > >-- >Greg Newell >mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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