Pitch Raising Techniques

[Richard Brekne]

I've heard these kinds of claims many times, and have had the 
opportunity to check the <<in tune-ness>> of such <<tuning>>.   Lets put 
it this way, there is no way any such tuning would come close to passing 
any tuning test that I know of.  A rough tuning is a rough tuning, and 
can be satisfiying enough I'll admit. 

I remember a discussion Bill Bremmer brought up a few years back about 
how many tunings one can get done in a days time.  He mentioned 
something about 11-12 one day at a school. But he was the first to 
clarifiy more closely what he meant by <<tuned>>. 

Cheers
RicB

Hechler Family wrote:

> That's true ... just the other day I tuned a piano that was 60-100 
> cents flat and wasn't tuned since 1978. As I tuned from A0 to C8, 
> checking octaves along the way, everything was in tune. That's not to 
> say that once the piano starts adjusting / shifting, how long it will 
> stay in tune. But at least when I left in was in tune ... with - one - 
> pass !
>
> Farrell wrote:
>
>> Ed Foote wrote:
>> "Usually I don't see more than 15% of the strings as  freebies, though."
>>
>> Well Ed, I guess you and me are just using the wrong tools. If we 
>> used RCT,
>> we could "tune 99.99% of the time in one pass to A440" - apparently even
>> from a half-step flat.
>>
>> How 'bout them cow pies?
>>
>> Terry Farrell
>>