---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On Nov 12, 2004, at 12:13 AM, Joe Garrett wrote: > David I. said: "Why don't we ask the List if anyone has had a plate=20 > crack during=3D > =A0a pitch raise.=A0=A0 It has never happened to me; on the other hand I have encountered a few=20= which were already cracked. Two of them were Baldwin Hamilton studio=20 uprights, and the "clue" was that a note was sticking at the tenor=20 treble break. This was because the strut was cracked and flexed outward=20= to the point it was interfering with the wippen's rotation. Plus the=20 "pitch stability" was nonexistent in the surrounding octave. Another was a K&C studio which I serviced regularly for a hotel. Aside=20= from a certain level of manufacturing incompetence from late 70s era=20 K&C, the hotel personnel routinely dropped pianos off stages etc. While it is true that "any improvement is good," pitch raising is an=20 integral part of the job. Don't avoid it! Practice, practice, practice.=20= Go for it! Patrick Draine= ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1151 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7d/ad/a9/06/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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