Ayyaaaeeeeyyy!!!! The pain! The... urkhmmmm, (throws up into a Steinway B) Tuner 666, 13th Floor of Heck At 20:37 1.3.2001 +0200, you wrote: >SACRILEDGE!!! > > >From you outcasts in the Northern Globe nothing more can be expected > >You cast aspursions upon the hallowed pitch of 440, brought to this world by >the Tuning Knights of old! > >May your hammer bend in the volcanic ash that covers your miserable little >rock. > > > >Brian Lawson, RPT >Johannesburg, South Africa :) > > >O.K. Carol wrote about the pitch thing. > >We normally tune to A440, but the symphony tunes to A442 We donīt take >them as far as A444 (unless perhaps when stock tuning new pianos). I heard >A444, is concert standard in Austria and the Czech Rep., but thatīs another >matter. >I have customers that play in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and I donīt >hesitate to bring a piano up to 442, as long as the strings etc. are >healthy. In fact, any time I tune a piano I ask whether there are other >instruments going to be used with it. > >I have NEVER had a problem resulting from tuning an instrument to A442. >There has never been a broken string at a concert I have tuned for. > >So whatīs the deal with the holy pitch? Are there many tuners out there >that will absolutely NOT bring a piano above A440, >and will -quote- "sooner quit their jobs than do it" -unquote- (hi >Carol). Iīm not talking about whether to charge more etc. just the >principle of the thing. I know this has been covered many times before, >but please. > >Carol knows that I think itīs ridiculous, if the instrument is healthy. ><g> What do other people think? And what about other Europeans? > > >Kristinn "Psychotuner" Leifsson >Reykjavík, Iceland
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