Billbrpt@AOL.COM wrote: > I have heard of others that were a 3rd flat. Anytime a piano is *that* flat, > you have to suspect a severe structural problem. Assuming that it has one, an > attempt at raising it to Standard Pitch might cause more damage and at the > very least, would not be stable. ..i am in the process right now of bringing back to pitch( or as close as I can ) a Cunningham Player..when I got to the piano 4 months ago, It was exactly a min.3rd flat..scared the hell out of me..customer told me that the previous tuner ( who he trusted ) never told him how flat the instrument was..BUT..the previous tuner was "afraid" to change a string on this instrument..so it looks like over the years wherever A4 was at when the previous tuner got there, that became Standard Reference Pitch..pretty scary. ..after I picked my jaw up off the floor during my first visit, the customer agreed to 3 pitch raises over the course of 8 months..i'm at PR#2 right now..i did a quick chip/pitch raise Monday and on Friday will Fine-tune to -50 Cents..havent't broken any strings and it is slowly but surely coming back to life.. ..there was no way, with a piano this flat, that I would have felt comfortable doing my standard Pitch Raise procedure for this particular instrument..my fear was not for stability, rather it was one of possible structural damage caused by the *sudden* addition of torque, tension, and pressure.. ..i treated this one very conservatively..and the customer is happy I did, since this is his "baby"..it feels like I did this one right..did I? Phil
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