how high(low) do you go?

[Stephen Airy]

Several years ago when we had our Hallet & Davis 52" upright tuned, I 
noticed he brought it DOWN somewhere around 50-75 cents, maybe even 100 in 
places!  Our previous tuner hadn't used a meter at the time (but then I was 
fairly young and inexperienced and not really paying much attention) and I 
noticed this tuner was using a meter.  It is currently very near A-440 
(regularly tuned twice a year until a few years ago when we stored it at a 
friend's house.  When we got it back in the house, I tuned it and it was 
about 30 - 40 cents flat in the middle and only about 10-15c flat in the 
bass and high treble) with about 3 badly out-of-tune (25-35c) unisons.

At 08:28 PM 11/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >>How high are you willing to tune a piano, when circumstances require it?
>A-442 would be about 8 cents high, right?  I assume you would go there?
>Would you go 10 cents?  15?<<
>
>  Greetings,
>    I would be willing to go as far as the customer wants to pay for.  A-444
>is not unheard of on the international concert stage, but I must ask, Why?  I
>do think that the bass strings may be damaged by going up 20 cents and then
>coming back down, especially if it happened several times.  Anybody have
>evidence of this?
>Regards,
>Ed Foote RPT


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