[pianotech] Collard & Collard revisited

[Farrell]

Don't know about the tip - sorry.

Joe has a good suggestion of starting on A2 or so - much easier to hear the 
right pitch there than down toward A0.

I guess the proper thing to do regarding pitch is to measure a few strings 
in different areas of the scale and calculate whether the string scale was 
designed to tolerate A440.

I've done a few pianos that flat. I target Standard Pitch on the first pass 
(no overpull) - it will end up 100 to 200 cents flat. I do that to find out 
from the get-go whether or not the instrument has any chance of being tuned 
to A440 or not. If the strings don't break on the first pass, you should be 
able to continue and tune it at A440. On the first pass, you might want to 
raise the pitch of the bass and high treble first - those are the most 
likely areas for strings to break. After the first pass you might want to 
shoot for Standard Pitch again on the high treble, as that is the area that 
will go the most flat after a pass.

I'd keep overpull to a minimum. You're gonna end up doing 3 to 5 pitch raise 
passes.

Oh, and you might want to make your appointment with the chiropractor for 
the late afternoon of the day you do this....... ('course that's assuming 
you can even tune this thing in one day!).

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duaine & Laura Hechler" <dahechler at charter.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:38 PM
Subject: [pianotech] Collard & Collard revisited


> Today, I just finished the repair and alignment of the overdampers.
>
> The hard part - the tuning.
>
> First, I'm having trouble getting the right tip for the pins.
> - Standard #2 tip is too big
> - Standard #1 tip is a little too small
> - Standard square tip is a little too small
> - Schaff's oblong tip is a little too big
> - That leaves a rectangular tip with square corners about the size of a
> "1-1/2" tip.
> Where to find such a tip ?
>
> Second, after a long while, I figured that the piano was - extremely -
> flat - about 5-6 notes flat.
> In trying to bring it up to pitch, two bass string sent snap.
> So I'm assuming, to allow for string stretchage, I need at least two 
> passes.
> Seeking advice on this kind of pitch raise.
>
> Thanks, Duaine
>
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