Pitch raising on older pianos

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Hi,

the national radio station here had an old tuner a long time ago.
My father always went there in the evening, or even in the night to tune 
after him.
But they never told him!

Kristinn





At 19:15 31.8.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Terry! I don't have any firsthand knowledge of tuners who won't do a
>pitch raise, but I have heard from customers in the past about very elderly
>tuners who had gotten too frail to attempt the work involved in a major
>pitch raise, and would only tune the piano where it was. I recall one
>customer who said they had been using the same quite elderly tuner for so
>long, that they didn't have the heart to discontinue using his services.
>They would have him come out and "tune" the piano, and then have another
>tuner come out and retune properly.  I hope that I know when its time for me
>to hang up the tuning hammer, long before I reach that point.  Patrick
>Poulson, RPT