how high(low) do you go?

[Stephen Airy]

At 08:40 PM 11/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
>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.

correction: the 3 unisons are NOW out even though the piano is pretty much 
in tune.  when it was OUT -- for fun I brought only the middle strings up 
part of the way leaving the unisons 15 to 30 cents out of tune to get a 
honky-tonk sound.

>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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