close enough>??

[Farrell]

Yup, I see it now. RH. My mistake.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Roberts" <kpiano@goldrush.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: close enough>??


The relative humidity was 4%. PAY ATTENTION

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <imatunr@srvinet.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: close enough>??


> 100 cents in a dollar 4 cents flat =4%  ?
> Joe Goss
> imatunr@srvinet.com
> www.mothergoosetools.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: close enough>??
>
>
> Four percent of what?
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul E. Dempsey" <dempsey@Marshall.edu>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:33 AM
> Subject: Re: close enough>??
>
>
> Conrad,
>
> Throw the dart would be my answer. The pitch deviations you describe on
> your Yamaha are fairly typical for Yamahas, especially this time of
> year. We have a lot of Yamahas here at MU and the RH in the building
> this morning,9 am, was, according to my Dickson Data Logger, a whooping
> 4%....
> Yes, that's right FOUR PER CENT.
>
> I've had no more than 15-17% since before Thanksgiving. Pitch raising
> is all I do, inspite of the fact that I let the pitch "float"( 15-20
> cents sharp) beginning in the late fall when the RH was still in the
> 80's.
>
> Are we having fun yet?
>
>
> Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:
>
>
> >Friends,
> >
> >I've been lurking on this discussion, and been having my curiosity
> piqued.
> >A collateral question formed in my alleged brain.
> >
> >
> >I know about pitch raises, I just finished one. (Details below)
> >I know from previous threads that some tuners charge a per cent
> surcharge
> >for pitch raises - some beginning at 2¢.
> >
> >
> >The piano which I just tuned (1971 Yamaha P2E) had (according to RCT) a
> >pitch of 440.4Hz @ A4. This is just less than 2¢. So, according to the
> >above criterium, it should be a standard tuning.  Right?
> >
> >HA! Wrong...  Maybe if it were the Hamburg D which I tune every week.
> >
> >IT NEEDED A PITCH RAISE.
> >
> >The bass section was 8-23¢ flat, the first two plain unisons were -23¢
> and
> >-40¢ with the pitch getting to within 4¢ by about F4 and staying there
> >until above the treble break where it went to a fairly constant -15/20¢.
> >
> >How you gonna charge for this? Average the cents deviation? Pick a note
> at
> >random? Use a dartboard?
> >
> >Do you have to wait until you are done and _then_ show the customer the
> >record of overpulls?
> >
> >Big pitch raises on those once-a-decade tunings are no-brainers.
> >
> >
> >Where and (more importantly) _how_ do you draw the line?
> >
> >Conrad
> >
> >
> >Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician
> >Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
> >Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076(Dept.office)
> >
> >- People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. -Bryan
> White
> >
> >
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> -------------------
> Paul E. Dempsey RPT
> Piano Technician
> Department of Music
> Marshall University
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