Pet Hate

[Scott Jackson]

Allan,
For the sake of your sanity, please learn to say NO!

Scott Jackson
Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Forsyth" <alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 5:37 AM
Subject: Pet Hate


> 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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