Thine Hallow Pitche

[Farrell]

    "Pitch raise to A444; $35
    Tuning at A444; $75
    Post Concert Pitch Correction; $35
    Total; $145 U.S. Dollars."

I don't understand the post concert pitch correction - what is the purpose -
back down to A440? This would leave the piano out of tune. Would you not
want to tune it again after the pitch lowering? Or are you just figuring
that the rough tuning you would be doing during the pitch lowering would
suffice for the piano until the next concert when it would be fine tuned
anyway? I'm just not that familiar with concert situations - I would have a
hard time sleeping at night if I were to walk away from a piano left
untuned!

Also, being that you mention Concert situation, do you not charge more for a
concert tuning than for a regular domestic-type in-home tuning? Just
curious.

Terry Farrell
Piano Tuning & Service
Tampa, Florida
mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <ramsey@extremezone.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: Thine Hallow Pitche


    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
>
>