[pianotech] (no subject)

[Michael Magness]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I guess we might as well just tune all pianos 1/2 to 1 full tone flat or
> sharp, or wherever they are then with that theory huh?  :-)))
>
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> Of Conrad Hoffsommer
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>  On 5/11/09, Jeff Deutschle <oaronshoulder at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, many teachers don't get their pianos tuned regularly, either.
> >
> > Also, I believe, that when there is a major pitch raise, the bends in
> > the wire move to new places, cause false beats in the treble (at least
> > for a while) and also cause instability as the bends straighten and
> > new bends form. This can be used as an argument for both tuning where
> > it is or for tuning to pitch.
> >
>
> Musing...
> Wouldn't that be that the strings are going back to their original (at
> pitch) kinks, thus _eliminating_ false beats which may have been
> caused at the tuning pin/capo/v-bar end of the string? The major
> movement would be at that end and very little at the bridge end where
> there probably are false beats from other causes, anyway.
>
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 I haven't "asked" my customers if they wanted the pitch raised on their
pianos for many years now. I just tune it to pitch and if it was bad enough,
schedule a second tuning for a not very distant time to refine the pitch
raise I did that day into a fine tuning. I do stop at some point during the
tuning to explain what I am doing and how flat the piano was/is but I'm
using that as an informing time not an asking time.
When I was in sales we called this the assumptive close, you just began
writing the order by asking the exact spelling of that last name or the
address or some other specific.

Mike
-- 
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright


Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
608-786-4404
www.IFixPianos.com
email mike at ifixpianos.com
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