Tuesday evening's tuning

[Kristinn Leifsson]

John and all,

Sounds like an ex-piano to me.
I wouldn´t have taken the chance of raising the pitch to 440 or 435 for
that matter.  This lady probably didn´t have other instruments to play with
it.  
If the piano would have been British I wouldn´t have been as shy of doing
the raise.  DON´T MISUNDERSTAND ME, not because of the "quality" of British
pianos but the nature of the strings.  
Isn´t it true that strings in British pianos have a lower carbon content
than others and are therefore less prone to breaking?  I´ve never had
trouble with these kinds of strings, except that thy sound dull.

P.S  Do you by any chance, (not wishing to raise a discussion, please, this
flamesuit is giving me an itch!) perfect pitch and do therefore have a
problem with non-440 tunings)


Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Iceland








At 09:54 22.12.1999 -0700, you wrote:
>As "luck" would have it, I had to tune a customer's piano at 7:00pm last
>night.  Pre 1900 Beckwith ( made/sold by Sears ).  Typical of the last
>piano of a day for a very tired tuner - 4 hammers missing, cracked high
>treble bridge, and 96c low of A-440.  ( Yeah, I know that standard pitch
>was 435 when that piano was built. )  The lady told me it belonged to her
>grandparents whom, she remembers, talked about tuning it - several times,
>but does not remember it ever being done.  Went over it once to bring it
>to 50c low, then with her OK went the rest the way to A-440 with no
>string breakage.  All that except for the last octave where the bridge is
>split.  Oh, and yes, I will be working on it again next week - in the
>evening again. :-(
>John Fortiner
>Billings, MT.
>
>ps regarding honest customers - she paid cash on the spot.
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