[pianotech] Raising rates in recession

[Terry Farrell]

Correct on the overpull. But I find that medium and larger sized  
pianos require somewhere in the range of 38% overpull. This guy said  
the piano was a semitone flat. When you pull up the pitch starting  
from A0, that will cause the strings toward the treble to drop in  
pitch. As the pitch raise proceeds through the tenor to the treble, I  
would expect that the next note in the treble would be 130, 140 or so  
cents flat, and requiring something approximating a 50 or 60 cent  
overpull. Every piano is different, of course.

Terry Farrell

On Jul 2, 2010, at 7:13 PM, David Love wrote:

> That is pretty fast.  I can do a pitch raise and tuning in one hour  
> and I
> thought that was pretty fast.  Can't imagine half that time.  But  
> just a
> point of order, the overpull of a piano 100 cents flat would only  
> require a
> 30 cents sharp overpull, not 60 cents.  Well within the BP generally.
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com