Thine Hallow Pitche

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    OK, here are my thoughts;

    I don't have a problem tuning to A442 or whatever. I don't personally
like pulling wound strings more than about 8 cents sharp and then dropping
them back down, but what the hey. What I DO have an objection to is doing
work for free. So I usually charge for a pitch raise, and a pitch lowering,
and include that in the price of my services. Kind of like this;
    Pitch raise to A444; $35
    Tuning at A444; $75
    Post Concert Pitch Correction; $35
    Total; $145 U.S. Dollars.
    Plus any incidental charges, such as stand by, touch up, anything that
takes time away from my other activities. Time is money. I love to do this
work, but not for free!

    If they want the work done, they pay. Period.


Kevin E. Ramsey
ramsey@extremezone.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lawson" <lawsonic@global.co.za>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Thine Hallow Pitche


> 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 don´t 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 that´s
another
> matter.
> I have customers that play in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and I don´t
> 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 what´s 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).  I´m 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 it´s ridiculous, if the instrument is healthy.
> <g>  What do other people think?  And what about other Europeans?
>
>
> Kristinn "Psychotuner" Leifsson
> Reykjavík, Iceland
>
>