<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You're right on pitch changing. I
usually have to do the first couple of tunings as a two steps forward,
one step back, meaning that the temperament gets 7-8 times through by the
time I get through all of it. Maybe this is the long way to do it,
but it works for me. When I chip tune, I like to start in the middle,
then chip octaves one up, one down, two up, two down, etc in a sort of
temperament order, constantly going back to my first notes to see how they
are reacting. My thinking is that I am spreading the new tension across
the whole piano perhaps a bit more evenly. I, too would like to hear
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">In a message dated 6/6/07 8:02:22 A.M. Central
Daylight Time, pwilliams4@unlnotes.unl.edu writes:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I agree Wim,</font><font size=2 face="Arial">
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That is exactly the same method I use. When restringing a whole piano,
however, I only tune sharp by 30-35 cents for three to four tunings, then
tune at 440, then re-settle the strngs with tapping at bridges, re squeezing
beckets, tightening coils, releveling, if needed, then tune again perhaps
slightly above 440. If it is the humid time of year, I'll just tune
at 440 as nature will pull it sharp for a few months. Then, it's
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Best,</font><font size=2 face="Arial"> <br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">I want to add that when stringing, I also
do all of the above, (tapping, tightening, etc.) I just assumed everyone
does those things, and that it is nothing "different". Also,
when I chip, the first note is a semi tone sharp. As I said, by the time
I get done chipping the piano, and probably when I'm about a third of the
way through, the pitch of that note has probably dropped to about even,
or even lower than the pitch. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">BTW, here is my chipping technique. I wonder
if this is how others do it. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">I chip the left string of the first note
at the break. (I get my pitch from another piano. When I was in St. Louis,
for a while I had my shop by my house, and often didn't have another piano
to get a pitch from. So I would go in the house, and play the note I needed,
and then hummed it while walking back to the shop. I guess if anyone would
have seen and heard me, they probably though I was crazy. ((No comments
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">I "play" a major scale all the
way to c8. (I do this aurally). I then go up a half a step, and again chip
only the left string. Of course the 3rd and 7th notes are already in tune,
so that more or less gives me a guide. When I get done with the right strings,
I tune the left strings, but chipping every note. I then chip the bass
section. Finally I go back and chip tune the middle strings. I believe
this evens out the tension as much as possible. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="Arial">Comments??</font>
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