Bob Wilson's comments on Pitch Raising

[Stephen Airy]

C517 is only 20 cents below today's pitch, C523.  A
semitone below, 100 cents, would be C494.  I assume
you meant to say a fifth of a half step instead of
near a half step.

--- Robert Wilson <pianotechnicianuk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> --- 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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