---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Greetings, If the pianos are "swollen" just now (summertime), due to the humid mountanous atmosphere of this part of Pennsylvania, is it OK to tune above A440? I have been tuning for alittle over a year now. I have found that pianos which the customer tells me havent been tuned for 5 or more years, are very close to A440, yet they are terribly out of tune as far as unisons and horribly flat upper ocataves. In other words, I will get a call to have a piano tuned and am told its been 5 plus yaears since last tuning, yet the A below middle C is right on or near 440. Other pianos I go to, the customer will say it's been 2 years and these are actually a few beats above A440. I never turn them back to A440, I figure they are swelled right now, and if I turn them down to 440 now, then, when the summer is over they will go below 440 when the heat goes on. Last summer, I had my first few tunings and I turned pianos back down to 440 and I was wondering if my fork was off...This year I figured it out. I think I am correct, but I want to be sure on this. This year, (with my whole whopping 16 months expertise) If I go into a situation and its a few beats above 440 I tune it right there. In fact, if the customer doesnt have a dehumidifer or ar conditioning, I even pull the piano up a bit to be alittle above A440. Pianos "should" be sharp just now, right? How am I on this? Am I figuring OK on this? Thanks Julia Gottchall, Reading, PA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/23/52/12/fc/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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