Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?

[David Ilvedson]

Just out of curiosity, is there anything denoting the high performance model of the Winter?  A letter before the serial #, for example?..;-]

David I.



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:18:26 -0400
Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?

>Hello Kevin. I was raising the pitch of a massive high performance Winter spinet
>yesterday a full half-step. And I was thinking that it would go faster if I were to strip mute
>the piano, PR just the middle strings, then go back a do the unisons. Do you do
>Terry Farrell
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <ramsey@extremezone.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:30 PM
>Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?


>Joe, glad it works for you, however, I find that the bass requires a twenty percent
>over-pull. Perhaps our methods differ; during a pitch raise, I tune the single bass strings
>and one string of each bi-chord first, then I pull out the strip and tune uniso    Please
>clarify.
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Joe And Penny Goss
>  To: pianotech@ptg.org
>  Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:46 PM
>  Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?


>  Kevin,
>  If the bass is about 30 cents flat I want to raise the note about three cents sharp (
>about 10% ) of pitch. So with a SATlll that raises the pitch 25%  that would result in too
>much over pull for me so I will set the over pull for 12 cents and roll the   I take only one
>measurement at A2 to arrive at my over pull. Works very well for me.
>  I use the 25% in the tenor and about C4 the 30% to the top then retune.
>  On pianos 25% or less flat or sharp I use the Verituner 100 and its 10% bass, 30%
>tenor,
>  and 36% treble and retune.
>  Joe Goss
>  imatunr@srvinet.com
>  www.mothergoosetools.com
>    ----- Original Message -----
>    From: Kevin E. Ramsey
>    To: pianotech@ptg.org
>    Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:40 PM
>    Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes?


>    >
>    >     All wound strings: 1/5 (Example: You test 10 notes, or so, and find
>    them
>    > about 30 cents flat. You would set your ETD to +6 cents sharp and tune
>    those
>    > strings to that setting.)


>        Here's another little brain saver:  What if you're pitch raising a piano and want to
>do a 20% overpull in the bass, and it's, say, 28 cent's flat. (let's see, one fifth of twenty
>eight would be ......... ah........ ah........)

>        Take 28, and double it for 56. Move the decimal point over to the left one place.

>         5.6 is 1/20th of 28.

>        At least, that's how I do it.