But Alan, if you move the keyboard to the left, you'll make it even flatter! dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/10/2003 at 8:37 PM Alan Forsyth wrote: >Hello everyone, >Just got back from tuning one of those mid-Victorian wooden framed, sticker >action, leather hinged, oblong pinned, straight strung bichord affairs that >was sitting at minus 600 cents! I always seem to land up with the dregs, >mainly because everyone else refuses to touch them. I have 17 of them on my >records ranging from 1835 to 1899. > >Does anyone have a foolproof method of pitch-raising these monsters without >turning oneself into a raving lunatic? They really do make a mockery of >ones >senses. The one idea that I have come up with is to just transpose the >whole >keyboard I.e. just slide the whole keyboard to the left and swopping over >the cheek blocks. > >Regards >Alan Forsyth >Edinburgh > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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