>Sure, I know what happened. Have you ever noticed that many aural tuners >will stretch C88 WAY, WAY sharp? Like even 50 cents sharp of where most >would arguably tune it? Yeah! I have a school district where I've tuned for the middle school, and high school for 20 years now, and they finally asked me to take care of the elementary school pianos too. I was forewarned by the "new" (formerly at the middle school) music program director that the pianos sounded awful. Of course, the pianos had last been tuned in September (maximum humidity) and now are bone dry, and wicked flat especially at the bass/tenor break. Except for ... when I got to A6 -- suddenly instead of needing to use my SAT II's pitch raise "overshoot", I had to start lowering the pitch -- a lot! And it just kept going .... All of the pianos at these schools were like this. By B7 it was 200 cents sharp! I am not acquainted with the "former" piano tuner, but I have learned that he is an elderly blind technician. While on the one hand I'd like to clue him in, I doubt that he'd take too kindly to a stranger telling him it's time to hang up the hammer! Patrick BTW Massachusetts has a law on the books which REQUIRES all public schools to employ blind technicians. Sometimes this is a beneficial situation (and sometimes the law is circumvented). A long time ago there were excellent programs (Perkins School for the Blind) training blind technicians in the area, but I hear the programs were phased out quite awhile ago.
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