Pitch Drop Over Years

[Kenneth Jankura]

I just set up an appointment, new Samick in 1988. Tuned once,  
probably 1989, and now me next week.
I'll post the pitch drop that I find, for reference.

Ken Jankura RPT
Newville PA

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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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!).
>>
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