[pianotech] Pitch raising limit

[Don]

Hi Mark,

30 cents for unwound strings and 12 cents for wound strings works well.
Tune unisons as you go. It works a little better and requires less over
compensation.

At 10:01 PM 8/5/2009 +0200, you wrote:
>        Greeting for the day List  What is the pitch raising limit? How
>many cents can one pitch raise without ruining/overstretching the strings,
>eg (for lack of words)- Piano is 200 cents flat and your customer wants the
>piano to be tuned to A442. Is this a one pass pitch raise, and then tune or
>3 pass pitch raise, how, what and why would you do?    I don’t know
>how to ask it better, simpler, clearer.   Thank you,  Regards  Mark Davis
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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