[pianotech] Raising rates in recession

[Ron Nossaman]

Terry Farrell wrote:
> 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.

I'm told over and over that ETDs calculate this stuff 
automatically, so the poor backward aural tuner doesn't have 
to guess on pitch raises. Accurate one pass pitch raises is 
one of the primary leverage points for ETD use, isn't it?

Ron N