I feel it is vital to the instruments we service to place them as near A440 as possible. In my short history of 7 years and thousands of pianos, most of them in the early years were uprights. I still feel you should not be afraid of these ol' beasts. In my history only one plate has cracked and that was after the owner told me he had dropped it getting it to the location. I have little string breakage and find most can come up in one pass. I set the pin low first to break the rust bond and then bring it up slowly. If the piano is too bad in the rust dept. I sell a restring if possible. I feel we should not just leave them all where we find them. Ed Tomlinson << On old uprights, I don't even find out where the pitch is. I tune it where it is, because of the problems you indicated, brittel strings, weak bridges, rustry strings. etc. If the piano happens to be on pitch, it is a plus, but I don't attempt to raise it much. Willem Blees RPT >>
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