One more tuning question...

[Greg Newell]

Julia,
         Floating pitch is not IMHO dishonest but again, IMHO short 
sighted. I'm now dealing with a University about an hour from me which 
could really benefit from floating the pitch as the humidity fluctuation is 
great, apparently. I, personally, can never get past the what if scenario. 
You know what I mean. What if someone is going to play along with a fixed 
pitch instrument and they are off. What if another instrumentalist tried to 
tune to the freshly tuned piano and can't. Those kinds of things.
best,
Greg Newell




At 09:36 AM 2/18/2005, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>             Is one way of doing business for some tuners to just tune the 
> piano "where it is"? In other words, they check the A and if its close 
> enough (or even if its not close to 440 ) just tune the piano so that it 
> is in tune with itself???
>
>            And even going further, If they have a regular client, such as 
> a church, to do the above mentioned thing, cleaning up unisons (so as to 
> do a "bang-up" tuning) and then, on every 4th tuning or so pull it back 
> up to A440 or alittle above, so they are set up to repeat the whole 
> process, thereby saving themselves some time on intermittent tunings, yet 
> leaving the customer believing that they are receiving an A440 tuning 
> each and every time...when they aren't receiving a true tuning (as far as 
> proper pitch goes) each and every time??
>
>             Not that I would do such a thing in my practice. I do not 
> condone it either. I think it is dishonest. My question is do some 
> tooners do this?? is it possible?
>
>
>Julia
>Reading, PA

Greg Newell
Greg's piano Forté
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