how high(low) do you go?

[Lynn Rosenberg]

No I just wanted to create discussion, of course I would never tune a piano
a half tone sharp.  I know Whitney pianos are replaceable, and I know that
one normally tunes a piano at a440, but I don't see a big eal tuning a piano
if necessary at a444.  Lynn Rosenberg

----- Original Message -----
From: Newton Hunt <nhunt@jagat.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: how high(low) do you go?


> Whitney spinets are replaceable.  Actually should have been
> replaced at birth.
>
> Grand pianos are far more expensive, harder to replace and
> plates do crack.
>
> We have standards, A440, so why play this game.  The organ
> should be retuned
>
>
>
> Lynn Rosenberg wrote:
> >
> > Well, when I was working for a local piano dealer back in the 70's
they've
> > changed hands and the name has changed but anyway, tuned 3 Whitney
spinet
> > pianos, they arrived from the factory a half tone sharp.  I've never
seen a
> > piano that sharp. I just looked up in Grand spinet pianos, and the pitch
of
> > asharp is 466.1638.  I suppose if a Whitney spinet can take, a good well
> > built grand can as well.  Any comments??? Lynn Rosenberg
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <kam544@flash.net>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 8:04 PM
> > Subject: Re: how high(low) do you go?
> >
> > > >...How high are you willing to tune a piano, when circumstances
require
> > it?...
> > > >Looking for parameters...
> > > >
> > > >Mark Potter
> > >
> > > I found a sanctury Baldwin M tuned to +14 cents to match the organ.  I
> > left
> > > it there for two tunings after which time I brought it down to A440.
No
> > > apparent problems developed.
> > >
> > > Keith McGavern
> > > Registered Piano Technician
> > > Oklahoma Chapter 731
> > > Piano Technicians Guild
> > > USA
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>