Dear Ricard, The State Theatre is the New Brunswick Cultural Center concert hall which owns it's on piano, a rebuild 1923 S&S D. It is quite stable when not not mess with, but if the pitch is changed it goes bonkers and is a bitch (although normally Charlene is a gentle lady) to restabalize. Too many orchestras and performers were requesting first one then another pitch. A policy had to be established to govern this tendency. It is amazing how often 440 is acceptable when they are hit in the pocket book directly. I was with four notes of finishing a tuning at the Town Hall in New York City when the performer bounced in and said, "You tuned it to 442 didn't you!". I said, "No, the house policy is 440." She, "But my Marimba is tuned to 442." Me, after a thinking pause, "I will have to tune the piano again, twice, to make it stable at 442. Put $100.00 cash folding money right here on the piano and I will do it but it will require another hour and a half." Her, immediately, "That's OK, 440 is fine." Real story and I did not get a request from admin for a change in pitch. COncert went well, I suppose. Newton
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