Hi Alan, If everything is solid, I normally just take them up to a semi-tone flat. I don't do them now, unless I have to. I have even taken some, (2) up to pitch. To do it without driving yourself crazy, I find a Papp's mute and an ETD, a must. Regards, John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Forsyth" <alanforsyth@fortune4.fsnet.co.uk> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: Pet Hate > 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 >
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