Tuning fluxuations

[Robert Finley]

Hello Michelle. What a coincidence to read your message because a similar problem occurred here today. This morning a friend of mine who is a flute player came to my house to do some recordings with me. She asked me if I tuned my piano to A440 (which I said I did the night before) because she thought the piano was sharp and the tuning adjustment on her flute was at the end of the range. The air conditioning was at full blast in my house. I have noticed that the piano was going gradually sharp. 

Robert Finley
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michelle Smith 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 8:25 PM
  Subject: Tuning fluxuations 


  Hello all.  Curiosity question for you.  I have a Steinway S here at the house that was tuned to A440 in February.  We've since turned on the air conditioner and the piano has gone sharp about 12 cents.  This wouldn't be a problem except that I have a flute student who can't push her head joint in any farther to be in tune with my piano.  I'm probably going to retune the piano because I don't think I can stand it any longer.   (I hate to mess up an otherwise good tuning that was done by someone far more experienced than myself.)

   

  So my question is this.  When you come to a piano that is sharp this time of year, do you try to lower the pitch to A440 knowing that it will probably drop significantly when the heat is turned back on in the winter?

   

  Thanks for your words of wisdom.

   

  Michelle Smith

  Student Tuner

  Bastrop, Texas
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