Cents: was help with bad tuning...

[Terry]

Hmmmm, maybe is just depends on the quality of tuning desired. But perhaps
your customers should be considering humidity control systems! Boy, am I
ever glad I don't live in a climate that would cause pitch to vary by 30
cents!!!   :-)

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ross" <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: Cents: was help with bad tuning...


> Sounds like overkill to me.
> None of my customers require anything approaching that exactness.
> In this area the piano varies in pitch from month to month. I haven't
> measured it, but I know from Jan. to Sept. some areas are off by 30c.
> So I am sure it could vary from some week to week by 5c, so why would I
even
> contemplate a pitch raise for 5c.
> 20c plus maybe, and then only depending on the situation, as the majority
of
> my customers value their money more than a supposed required pitch raise.
> A lot of them wait 2 or 3 years between tunings anyway.
> I guess what I am trying to say, is not all customers need a pitch raise,
> for the amounts some of you say.
> John M. Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
> jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:41 PM
> Subject: RE: Cents: was help with bad tuning...
>
>
> >I don't know about you, but I pitch raise anything over 5 cents low.    2
> >passes with an extra charge for extra time and EFFORT.
> >
> > David I.
>
>
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