Story and Clark not tuned for 30 years!!

[Leslie Bartlett]

I had a retired teacher with no money and a piano 150 cents low who was told
the piano couldn't be raised to pitch.  I got to fiddling with it and then
asked "WHY?"     "I don't know," she said. "I think he wanted to sell me a
restringing job."  She wasn't a really happy camper.  The piano had some
real problems but came up to pitch.   I've had some, though which just
scared me and I wasn't willing to risk what might happen.......
les bartlett the chickenhearted 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Farrell
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 3:01 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Story and Clark not tuned for 30 years!!

I have long wondered where the philosophy of "you can't raise the pitch that
much" or "you can't raise the pitch of certain pianos" came from. Can you
expand on what that course instructs its students to do with a below-pitch
piano? Any additional info would be very interesting.

I ask this because it is so incredibly common to go to a flat piano, tell
the owner it needs a 100-cent (or whatever) pitch raise, and have the owner
say that the last piano tuner said you couldn't raise the pitch. I've always
wondered where that came from. I had figured they simply did not know how to
raise the piano pitch - or they did not know how to replace a string - so
they just didn't do it. But I was not aware of any institution actually
teaching such a practice (or lack thereof).

I leave one or two pianos flat per year because of some sort of extenuating
circumstances. Every other one though gets yanked up to standard pitch!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> The piano tuning curriculum I took, The American School of Piano 
> Tuning, recommended against it. From the replies I've received on this 
> post, though, it seems that is unnecessary if you take the proper care.
> Sam Choy


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