New, 1/2 price computers at "Best Buy".

[gordon stelter]

I heard they're dumping all their stock with the older
operating system.
     G


--- John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> wrote:

> I had one that I did a few years ago, it was over
> 300c down in pitch, not even, flat. Actually, it
> might even have been more than that. The first of
> the pitch raises, some notes had to be taken up over
> 200c.
> I asked the guy, when it was last tuned, and he told
> me, that it had never been tuned, and he remembered
> when it was delivered, in 1929.
> I brought it up, 1 semi-tone at a time, then a fine
> tune. No strings broke, and he hasn't called me
> since, even although, I told him, we were on catch
> up, and it would take a few tunings for it to
> stabilize.
> John M. Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
> jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com 
>   To: pianotech at ptg.org ; BEATLSONGS at aol.com 
>   Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 10:20 AM
>   Subject: Very interesting question--
> 
> 
>   I wonder what the limit is as to how far flat a
> piano will go if it is never tuned. Let's say a
> piano was built in 1900, tuned many times in the
> factory until the strings were stretched out and the
> tune stabilized.
>   If it were never tuned after that, would it reach
> a point, let's say, in the 1960's, 70's, or 80's
> where it would not go flat any more? And how flat
> would it end up being -- 150 cents? 200 cents? I'm
> curious because I've seen many old uprights that
> were about 150 cents flat, and I wondered if they
> were ever tuned over their 100 year lifetime.
> 
>   Jesse Gitnik
>   NYC
>   Tech since 1980
> 



 
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