stability of pitch raises (Ron's question)

[David Love]

Ron:

Admittedly, I don't know why someone would make a "first pass" at a piano at
pitch.  Personally, I would consider that unnecessary and charging extra for
it wouldn't make sense.
But everyone has there own preference.  When I mentioned about flat rating,
my point was that tuning a piano which is already at pitch and is capable of
being tuned in one pass ought to take less time than pulling a piano up to
pitch from a quarter tone flat and then going over it a second time to fine
tune it.  An additional charge for the second condition would, in my
opinion, be warranted.  Whatever technique you use to tune a piano which is
already at pitch seems irrelevant as long as you are consistent in your fee
structure.  It would be my guess, however (all things being equal), that the
two passes to bring a piano that is a quarter tone flat into tune would take
longer than the two passes to bring a piano that is already at pitch into
tune.

David Love

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: September 02, 2001 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: stability of pitch raises (Ron's question)


> >I would not say the ETD eliminates the work of a pitch raise.  Rather, it
> >helps to calculate the overpull so that when you are done it is within a
few
> >cents and the fine tuning requires little further change in pitch, though
> >not less work to fine tune.  The extra charge is for the extra time
involved
> >in the pitch raise itself, it is not a punitive charge.
>
> David,
> So what's the difference in time between a first pass of two passes at
> pitch with an ETD, or a first pass of two passes at a quarter semitone low
> with an ETD? That's the essence of the question.
>
>
> Ron N