pitch of old upright

[reggaepass at aol.com]

Hi Ed,



No missing or replaced strings, ridges are not perfect, but certainly not chronically cracked.? Unisons aren't bad at all, especially considering that it's been three years since the last "tuning", but I can't say about the torque on the tuning pins as the client has yet to decide whether or not to get started with the many hundreds of dollars of work that would be required in order to get all of the notes working and the piano in tune, regardless of the pitch target determined.?

Alan Eder


-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Sutton <ed440 at mindspring.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:18 pm
Subject: Re: pitch of old upright




Alan-

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Any signs of trouble? Broken strings? Loose pins? Cracked bridges? Warped back frame?

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Uprights with agraffes often tune very smoothly with no string rendering problems, because the string usually goes from the agraffe straight to the tuning pin with no bumps to drag over.

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My 1892 Mathushek with agraffes has all original strings and is one of the easiest tuning pianos I've ever met, and is happy at 440 Hz.

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Use an ETD for the pitch raise so you don't overdo it.

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Ed Sutton


----- Original Message ----- 

From: reggaepass at aol.com 

To: pianotech at ptg.org 

Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 7:40 AM

Subject: pitch of old upright



List,

A client has a Reed and Sons upright, made in Chicago in?1907.? It was last tuned three years ago, but is currently 20 to 45 cents flat.? Features include a full plate, agraffes throughout the tenor and treble, continuous brass hammer rail flange, and balance rail pins that start at the top of the keys and protrude?UP into the balance rail .? Does anyone know what pitch this instrument is designed for?

Thanks,

Alan Eder 

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