This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment We've been over floating the pitch many times...if that's what= your talking about. Check the archives...In terms of stability,= the less you change the tension the better. I float the pitch= 3 cents either direction except on concert instruments. Most of= my Churches are not what I would consider concert instruments. = Other instruments can certainly adjust to that... I'm sure there are "tooners" who do just about everything you can= imagine. They, generally have short careers. The idea that= the piano is going to continue to drop during the year is= erroneous. It will go up and down. Also keep in mind, I live in the Bay Area of California and we= have a pretty stable climate. If tuned at pitch occassionally= they tend to stay in the ballpark...if I lived elsewhere I'd= probably be installing a lot of damp-chasers. David Ilvedson Original message From: To: Received: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:36:03 EST Subject: One more tuning question... Greetings, 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? Julia Reading, PA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1d/f5/02/d6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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