I did that yesterday. A lady that bought an overdamper piano in an antiques store in Denmark... duhhh... hadnīt had it tuned for twenty years. It was a (musical) half step flat. Strings had a hint of rust, and the tuning pins were ugly looking. There was this white condensational stuff around some places that gave me a bad feeling. Have no idea what that was. Tuning pins still had some element of "tightishness" in them. The bass and tenor were actually a lot sharper than the rest. Which made me worry about pin block separation, but no areas were excessively flat, so I didnīt know about that. This huge piano was standing on tiny wheels on a soft wooden floor. Just me and her in the house, so I decided not to pull it forward to look at the block. The sound board, however was totally undamaged giving me a hint of the overall wood state, so I went ahead and tuned it, and LOWERED the bass. She just used it herself a little bit, didnīt even play it any more since the dampers hadnīt damped since the last time it was moved. I tuned it where it was, and fixed the damping. Sheīs (knowledgeably) happy. Iīm (omnisciently) happy. It sounded "O.K." as well as these things can sound,( Terry Farrell, thatīs my input for your previous post :) ) But oh, did my relatively well trained relative pitch sense shudder when that song that I played "just didnīt seem right" No regrets and best regards, Kristinn Leifsson, Reykjavík, Iceland At 19:03 7.9.2000 -0700, you wrote: >List >A customer called to have his piano tuned but said the last tuner would not >bring it to A 440 How do you determine at what pitch you tune and which >pianos should not be tuned at A-440. Thank you for your help. Pat Neely
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