---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Marcel, I actually enjoyed raising the pitch on the grand. The employees of the thrift stoer? well that's a different story, one with it's own title page, table of contents and even its' own Libraryof Congress number. :) I always panic that I'm going to break a string. I told a customer of the store who approached me about tuning that string breakage is a possiblity with pitch raising. I didn't say I might break a string of course. The problem with that piano was the some or quite a few tuning pins were loose, and I barely had to breathe on the lever to make the pin move. It sounds funny when a tuning pin is loose and the string just goes crazy. I'm hopefully goining to go back on Monday morning and investigate the piano to see if I can do a little more to it. It's right by the front door which is bad. The temp. change is aweful on that already pitiful thing. Marshall -------------- Original message -------------- From: Marcel Carey <mcpiano@videotron.ca> > Now Boys and girls, > > Pitch raising is nothing but a rough tuning done to bring the piano up > to pitch or closer to pitch. The only advantage of ETD (Electronic > Tuning Devices) is that they have a program to measure how far flat are > the notes just before we tune them and then the program overshoots a > certain % above the normal pitch. All this is done with the hope that > after the pitch raise (rough tuning), the piano will be close to pitch > and tunable in one pass. > > Now for beginners, Pitch raises are a fantastic opportunity to learn and > practice your tuning lever technique. This is the most important thing > to practice. You will get the feel for different pianos and tuning pins > and see how they react to different techniques of the lever. > > So, be thankfull when you get to raise the pitch of a piano. Think of > the practice and remember that you don't have to listen so hard on the > first pass. Just tune it as fast as humanly possible. You'll get very > good experience. > > Marcel Carey, RPT > Sherbrooke, QC > > > > Thanks for your help, Ron. That makes sense, though I wish > > there was a more > > definite answer. I guess pitch raising aurally is a tricky > > skill to learn. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/92/67/23/92/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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