[pianotech] Raising rates in recession

[Terry Farrell]

I should have stated 38 in the treble.....

Terry Farrell

On Jul 3, 2010, at 12:21 AM, 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.
>
> 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