[CAUT] pitch raises in practice room row...

[Ron Poire]

In order to do something, you would need several practice rooms free at once.
Otherwise, you would need to deal with moving students around to accomodate pitch correction and coming back to fine tune later.  When you leave a practice room, it is assumed you are done with the room, and the piano can go back into service.
Sounds like a great idea.  You are not imagining things.  A piano will settle a little after correction.  When I have two grands in a faculty office, I will correct both pianos, then go back to tune.  It is easier that way.  

Ron Poire 
formerly of the UMN school of Music 


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ron Koval 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:20 AM
  Subject: [CAUT] pitch raises in practice room row...


  I got to thinking yesterday about pitch adjustments to a bunch of pianos in one day.  
  Has anyone tried an "assembly line" approach to doing a few at a time?  That is:
   
  1 single pass each piano
  2 go back and sencond- pass after letting them settle for the hour or so it takes for #1?
   
  I'm just wondering about stability and ease of tuning.
   
  I did three yesterday on similar P22's. 
  Pitch-raised (25-30 cents for solo and ensemble practice) all three and then
  started a second pass on #3. 
  I also "banged in" the piano with the dampers up on #2,#3 after the PR
   
  When I finally got back to #1, it seemed to settle a little bit easier into tune,
  but that could just be wishfull thinking!
   
  Ron Koval
  Concordia U.


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