One more tuning question...

[gordon stelter]

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--- Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> wrote:

> 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
> mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net 
> 
> 
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