FWD: Sharp organ

[David M. Porritt]

Greg:

I tune a piano here that is in a church with a pipe organ and their
"tuners" leave it in a mess.  I've found some ranks close to pitch, and
others 18-cents sharp (445).  First make sure the organ agrees with itself,
then match as well as you can.  443 is certainly not dangerously high.
It's used in lots of places.  Do tell them that the pitch raise cost and
any string breaking costs are theirs.

dave

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On 5/12/01 at 8:10 AM Jeannie Grassi wrote:

>List,
>Anyone care to share your opinion with Greg?
>
>From: greg hollister [mailto:biggiewarehouse@yahoo.com]
>Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 6:02 PM
>Subject: Sharp organ Q&A
>
>
>I just had an experience with a pipe
>organ which was recently tuned.  The pitch was just
>above A-443. I double checked this with a spare fork
>and with the digital piano in the church.   All
>confirmed my initial finding.  Really sharp.  Of
>course, the choir director loves to play duets.  The
>piano they use is a 25? year old Kawai 300 grand.   My
>question is this: In a situation like this  do we just
>go ahead and tune the piano that sharp informing the
>church they will have to tune it again and pay for any
>string breakage?  How sharp is too sharp?  The organ
>is almost new and pitch was not a problem prior to
>this.  How much slack do we cut pipe organ tuners?
>Thanks,
>						Greg Hollister RPT				
>
>
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@swbell.net
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275