Pitch Raise, was: Standard Pitch

[cswearingen@daigger.com]

Like Terry, I'm a bit confused on this as well.  To me, the purpose of a
pitch raise is not to necessarily leave a note sharp, it's to leave a note
a close to the target pitch as you can.  Some notes will be slightly sharp
of target and some will be slightly flat of target.  If I do a pitch raise,
there is no need to do a subsequent rough tuning - just a fine tuning.

Corte Swearingen
Chicago


                                                                                                         
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No Terry, you misunderstand me, the "pitch raise" itself is the piano tuned
sharp, subsequent rough tuning you are tuning from sharp to correct pitch.

Try and tune a semitone flat piano to A440 in one go, and you are giving
yourself a loss and two hours or more

Brian



 ----- Original Message -----
 From: Farrell
 To: Pianotech
 Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 9:26 PM
 Subject: Re: Pitch Raise, was: Standard Pitch

 Comments interspersed below:
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Brian Lawson
  To: Pianotech
  Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:15 PM
  Subject: Re: Pitch Raise, was: Standard Pitch

  Hi, let me say it again, as sometimes I think I'm writing posts to myself
  on pianotech.

  No, I read it, but I don't understand it.

  A pitch raise, my definition:

  The purpose of a pitch raise is have all strings slightly or more sharp
  than "standard pitch"

  The object of my pitch raises are to have all strings at target pitch.

  A pitch raised piano is an out of tune piano, but sharp to " standard
  pitch"

  Why would you want the piano sharp? If the client wants their piano at
  A440, I would recommend that one tune it to A440, not something sharper.

  unisons are not in tune, 4ths, 5ths octaves are close or wildly out of
  tune

  and that only takes about 15 - 20 mins!


  Then, you do your first rough tune to get it sounding close. It is
  because it is easier to tune from sharp to correct pitch than to pull up
  from flat


  shall I go on?

  Sure. But it seems to me easiest to tune a piano that is already at
  target pitch than one that is either sharp or flat.

  Brian



  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Michael Gamble
  To: Pianotech
  Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 7:15 PM
  Subject: Re: Pitch Raise, was: Standard Pitch

  Hello Terry Farrell
  I don't think there can be such a beast as a 15 minute pitch raiser. This
  is an idle boast. I'm with you in setting this up as a test! I use my
  patent "quadrant" approach (see post "Raising Don Rose to Standard Pitch"
  ) I hope Don will forgive my blatant use of his name to identify a
  partic. posting!!!
  Regards
  Micxgael G (UK)