Aural tuning- 300 cents flat

[Don]

Hi Greg,

What do you charge for your "all day" Pitch Correction? 

Why did you not consider using CA glue on this instrument?

How many times has a bridge cracked?

Have you considered using thin CA glue on the bridge cap to "reinforce" the
bridge pins as a prophilatic?

At 06:42 AM 2/26/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Hello, friends,
>
>The super-flat piano mentioned in my original post was able to hold its 
>pitch at 425.  I usually just crank these babies right up to 440; sometimes 
>a bit higher if the piano is relatively new, then settle them back down to 
>440.  I might be there all day but I will eventually get it stable.  I hate 
>to leave a piano under 440 and hardly ever do, and only then for structural 
>reasons.
>
>I didn't mind the three broken strings; they were in the high treble, above 
>the dampers, so they were easy to reach and I needed the practice.  What I 
>worry about is bridges cracking, since no knot will fix those.  At this 
>time, I don't do shop work, and I'd have to farm it out (if I could find 
>someone to agree to do it.)
>
>As for getting an ETD to help with pitch raises, well, I wish I could but 
>with two kids in college, buying the daily newspaper sometimes can seem like 
>a luxury.  For the time being, I'll be 100% aural.
>
>If you've never dared a drastic pitch raise, here's what I do:
>-tighten all screws
>-strip-mute the whole piano to one string per note
>-pull A4 to 440 (if you dare)
>-tune A3 to A4; then A2, etc. all the way down
>-do the same thing for all the As going up
>-then tune the Es up and down, then the Bs, going through the cycle of 5ths 
>for the entire piano
>(F#, C#, G#, D#, Bb, F, C, G, D) so the added strain is spread throughout 
>the instrument
>-pull the unisons in
>-start the process over; you'll be much closer and more stable.
>-finally, begin to fine-tune the piano. It should be quite stable then.
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>Gregory P. Livingston, Piano Tuning and Service
>781-237-9178
>Piano Technicians Guild (associate member)
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