John the Chinese pianos of that era were notorious for having VERY bad pin blocks. A lot of the owners of these pianos at the time were given their money back by the retailer because of the untunable pin blocks. The symptom was, when pulling the string up and taking your hand off the Lever the pin would spin back!!!! and you say to pull it up 100 cents? sheeesh! Robin Stevens Why did you not do a pitch raise? I always take pianos to A440, unless there are special circumstances. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: Robin Stevens To: Pianotech List Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:14 PM Subject: Re: Very interesting question-- I had the Lord Mayer of a small town call me and say proudly that his never been tuned" Chinese Pearl River he bought in the 1950's needed tuning. According to his ear only a couple of notes needed tuning!!! It had dropped a full semitone but no unisons had gone completely berserk. I tuned it to A415, but I am not holding my breath waiting for the next tuning [--(( Robin Stevens -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070131/be892a14/attachment.html
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