Pet Hate

[David M. Porritt]

But Alan, if you move the keyboard to the left, you'll make it even
flatter!

dave

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On 5/10/2003 at 8:37 PM Alan Forsyth wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>Just got back from tuning one of those mid-Victorian wooden framed,
sticker
>action, leather hinged, oblong pinned, straight strung bichord
affairs that
>was sitting at minus 600 cents!  I always seem to land up with the
dregs,
>mainly because everyone else refuses to touch them. I have 17 of
them on my
>records ranging from 1835 to 1899.
>
>Does anyone have a foolproof method of pitch-raising these monsters
without
>turning oneself into a raving lunatic? They really do make a mockery
of
>ones
>senses. The one idea that I have come up with is to just transpose
the
>whole
>keyboard I.e. just slide the whole keyboard to the left and swopping
over
>the cheek blocks.
>
>Regards
>Alan Forsyth
>Edinburgh
>
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@mail.smu.edu
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
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