Pitch Raises (was:Paid for Pitch Raises?

[Jon Page]

>What's interesting to me in this thread is that no one has mentioned 
>ETD tuining. Using either Tunelab or Cybertuner you can do a one 
>pass pitch raise that sounds like a fine tuning. It is not perfect 
>and may not be quite as stable but tuning each unison carefully as 
>you go, the piano will sound better than most pianos that you find 
>on dealers floors and it will be very close to pitch.
Norm Barrett

With the VT 100, I can raise the pitch as much as 4 bps/16 cents and 
be left with
a pretty darned good tuning. Certainly not performance grade but 
playable. I may
pull it to 441 or 442; tune A4 then A3 and proceed upwards with a 10% overpull
at A#4.  Sometimes, A4, A3 then start from the bottom of the long bridge and
overpull A#4 (and up) by the percentage that A4 has gone flat.

I advise that more frequent tuning will keep the pitch up and make 
the tuning more stable.
If they follow my advice, the piano gets tuned again soon and 
technical aspects can be
addressed.

If they don't get it tuned regularly, I've not wasted my time at the 
initial visit and the
customer doesn't feel like I'm trying to up-sell them.
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Regards,

Jon Page
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