A 440

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 9/7/00 9:38:35 PM Central Daylight Time, 
pneely@thegrid.net writes:

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 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 >>


There are several factors that will determine whether or not a piano should 
be brought up to A440, and there have been many articles and posts written on 
this subject. But despite all that has been written, there is one that seems 
to be prevalent in the "real" world. There are tuners out there who are not 
skilled enough to know how to raise pitch on a piano. And therefore, they 
will tell a customer the piano cannot be brought up to A440. Or the tuner is 
too lazy to work at bringing it up to pitch. 

So when you look at the piano, and don't see anything that would indicate the 
piano shouldn't be up to pitch, go ahead and give it a pitch raise, and make 
the extra money. 

Willem