Pitch Drop Over Years

[Farrell]

Amen!

TF

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> This is when I say Thank God for ETDs.
> 
> Marcel Carey, RPT
> Sherbrooke, QC
> 
> 
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> There was a recent tread on how much a piano will drop in pitch over the
> years. This afternoon I have an appointment to tune a piano the owner
> bought new 28 years ago, and she knows for a fact (or at least that what
> she says) that it has never been tuned. I'll report back.
> 
> Terry Farrell
> 1978 Kimball spinet. Her parents bought it for her new when she was a
> kid. She has owned it for 20 years. She knows it has not been tuned in
> the past 20 years. She thinks that her parents had not had it tuned in
> the first eight years either, but was not sure. From the way it sounded,
> my guess is that they had not had it tuned!
> 
> Bass was 80 cents flat. Tenor was 100 cents flat. Treble ranged from 130
> to 180 cents flat.
> 
> Two pitch raises and a "fine" tuning (as y'all know, one doesn't fine
> tune an instrument like this!).
> Terry Farrell