---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I Don Out here in Calif. We don't have any thing like remotely resembling your pitch swings. Out here From summer to winter it's usually not more than 10 cents even in extreme cases where I live in the central valley. I try not to tune a regular clients piano on the cusp of a weather change & if I do & it's 6 cents flat before the moist season I know that if I raise it then it'll be overly sharp in a short time . If I leave it 5 to 8 cents flat the paino often comes up to A-440. Or if a piano is stable 2 to 3 cents either side of A-440 & it's not a pitch critical situation then I leave it. This is what I mean by floating the pitch. To me 2 to 4 cents, for practical purposes is about the same as measuring a nats eyebrow. Know what I mean? Dale Hi Dale, I hate to float pitch when humidity can be so easily controlled with DamppChaser systems. I am guilty of "floating" from time to time--but only when the client refuses my advice. Please realize I live in an extreme climate (4% to 84$)--it would not be uncommon for A4 to drift 30 cents in 3 months (and I'm sure you can imagine what that does to the tenor--and to unisons). No offense was taken--at least not by me! I agree that unisons are "where it is at", and I want them as stable as possible. I think I do not too badly at it at least some of the time. My typical careful tuning service call is about the same time as yours, 1 to 1.5 hours. I would rather not do more than four a day--and three is getting more and more attractive to me *grin* ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/be/73/df/84/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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