This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I also service mostly older pianos. I leave maybe one or two a year = below A440 (rusty, breaking strings, little old lady w/ no money, etc.). = Why would "whats in front of me" pose a barrier to tuning at A440? Ya = puts yer lever on the tuning pin in front of you and you crank it! Terry Farrell Wether a piano gets the 440 treatment depends on what its used for and = the client. I don"t know about you listers...but not all my pianos I = service are new, and have already been neglected for years. I can only = do what I can with whats in front of me. I don't consider myself a = "tooner" because of it. Alpha88x@aol.com wrote:=20 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 Richard the "Piano Guy" ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/54/1a/c1/a5/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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