Why didn't you bring it to A-440? Broken stirings already replaced? That's the only reason I can think of! Avery Todd On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Greg Livingston <pianotuner440 at hotmail.com>wrote: > Dear Friends, > > We have been told that the beat rate for A3-C#4 is about 9 bps; F3-A3 is > about 7 bps; do these beat rates only apply when A4 is close to 440? > > If A3 on a neglected piano is closer to F#, are those beat rates the same? > > I recently tuned the most out-of-tune Acrosonic I've ever seen in 22 years > of tuning. I did my best and the piano sounds better than I'm sure it's > sounded in years, but I didn't dare get the A anywhere near my 435 fork. I > decided just to raise A4 a bit and tune it from that point. Of course, if > it slipped, it would throw everything off, but I had no other reference > point. I will tune it again in a few months. > > Can I use those traditional beat rates when the A is somewhere around 420? > Just wondering... > > ___________________________________________________ > Gregory P. Livingston, Piano Tuning and Service 781-237-9178 > Piano Technicians Guild, associate member (Boston chapter) > > * * * Always remember September 11, 2001 * * * > > > > ------------------------------ > Life on your PC is safer, easier, and more enjoyable with Windows Vista(R). See > how <http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/127032870/direct/01/> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090101/63c8ed9a/attachment.html>
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