Fork accuracy

[Cy Shuster]

A 50-year-old Acrosonic that hadn't been tuned in 15 years, lots of string 
corrosion, 30 to 100 cents flat across the board.  Customer never played 
with other instruments and didn't care about pitch (I showed her where it 
was).  Oh, and she said she paid $30 for the piano.  With her agreement, I 
brought it up to -30 cents across the board, and felt lucky that no strings 
broke.

--Cy Shuster--
Bluefield, WV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:37 AM
Subject: Re: Fork accuracy


> Hi David,
>
> How do you choose where to "float the pitch"? If at A4 then 4 beats would
> be =~ 15 cents. If this "floating" is made necessary by humidity change,
> then the piano is very likely still going to be unstable to some degree as
> other areas of the instrument will be "out" by at least double your
> "float". I'd try to offer the client advise about humidity control systems
> so that they can benefit from the savings in tuning costs.
>
> Let's not be like the legislative body that tried to "round off" pi to be
> exactly equal to 3 *grin*.