This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Julia,=20 I would ask you this question. Let's assume you end your tuning with the = piano on A=3D440. Tomorrow the weather changes a bit and the humidity = goes up. Where is you tuning at the end of the day or the third day = after you tuned? If you are aware of season changes and how they will = affect the piano it is only good practice in my opinion to "float" the = pitch in some cases. For example leave it slightly low if you know it's = going to go sharp in a few weeks. Over all the customer ends up with a = piano that's closer to A=3D440 for a longer time. I'm sure there maybe a = few customers, performers, even tuners, that can tell the piano is not = A=3D440, most can not without a fork, tone, ETD. I weekly find fine = artists playing with a 20 cent flat or sharp piano and not having the = least idea it sharp or flat. There is no reason you can't explain what = you are doing to the customer and why it will keep the piano closer to = 440.=20 The pianos that I tune on a two month basis I will end the tunings at = A=3D440 during the same season. Unless I'm tuning just before the heat = come on or summer and the air is about to start, then I will think of = allowing a small amount of pitch "Float". Rich ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Alpha88x@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 8:36 AM Subject: One more tuning question... Greetings,=20 Is one way of doing business for some tuners to just tune = the piano "where it is"? In other words, they check the A and if its = close enough (or even if its not close to 440 ) just tune the piano so = that it is in tune with itself??? And even going further, If they have a regular client, such = as a church, to do the above mentioned thing, cleaning up unisons (so as = to do a "bang-up" tuning) and then, on every 4th tuning or so pull it = back up to A440 or alittle above, so they are set up to repeat the whole = process, thereby saving themselves some time on intermittent tunings, = yet leaving the customer believing that they are receiving an A440 = tuning each and every time...when they aren't receiving a true tuning = (as far as proper pitch goes) each and every time?? Not that I would do such a thing in my practice. I do not = condone it either. I think it is dishonest. My question is do some = tooners do this?? is it possible?=20 =20 Julia=20 Reading, PA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/44/24/d4/f4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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