Was/Sharp organ/Organ tuning

[David Renaud]

No solution....more related questions.

I also have recently begun to tune for a church hall with
a $2000000 pipe organ. The piano is a new 7" Pramburger.

It costs them $2200 per tuning to tune the organ three times per
year,$6600.....
They bring the company in from out of town.
(Ha... but the committee is shopping for the best tuning price on the
piano,
even though the music director is insistent he wants me to have the
contract
and they need to use it for concert work.....volunteer committees!!)
Perhaps I should learn to tune that organ...I'll give them special price
hehe.

Serious Pipe Organ questions/obsevations.....

I question the tuning of the organ, It had been done the day before.
Are Organs purposely offset due to the differential in the size of the
pipes may cause different pipes to change with temperature at different
rates?

A440 Unisions between different sets of pipes do beat-- about 1 per
second.
Bass below F2 or so seem sharp to me.   Perhaps they use a machine.
Any comments of organ idiosyncrasies appreciated. I'm hoping that my
critical attitude of its tuning is due to my ignorance of pipe organs
and not
because standards for tuning these instruments are so low at even such
outrageous prices.

As a footnote, this beast goes down to "C0"?, a full major 6th below the

lowest A on the piano. I tried the foot pedals with the 64 foot stop and

that low C just sounds like a jackhammer in the room ta-ta-ta -ta-ta.
Anyone know its frequency?

                                       Cheers
                                        Dave Renaud
                                        RPT




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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