12 Cents - Alan Barnard - "This Needs A Definitive Settlement"

[Joseph Garrett]

Alan,
You stated: "I'd have to go back and look, but I'm pretty certain that Randy
Potter
has cited this information and stated, in effect, that the time-honored
belief that pianos needed to "settle" following a pitch correction was
not correct."
As far as I'm concerned, the "shifting" of pianos, during a pitch raise, is
pretty much "Real Time"! The pitch raising article, that I wrote, was based
on this premise. I've been using the "Pitch Raising Program", that I
developed, for several years now. I have had a very small percentage, (less
than 5%), of pitch raises, change markedly, from where I left them. This is
with a Pitch Raising, (however many passes it takes to get the piano at
pitch and stable enough to fine tune it.) and fine tuning in "one sitting".
Most of the pianos that I do this way, will be within 5cents of where I left
them 6-12 months after the initial work. I personally don't think it is
necessary to wait a period of time to get the piano to be reasonably stable,
unless there are structural considerations. My personal belief is that the
"wait and fine tune it later" is like "you should always put a piano on an
inside wall", sort of thing. (It's our version of Urban Ledgends, IMO.)
Flame suit tightly zipped!<G>
Best Regards,


Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)

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