sharp tuning

[paulrevenkojones at aol.com]

 Joe (and Wim):

BZZZZT!. "Beyond it's elasticity" means that the string will now break. Overpitching a string will not cause false (real) beats in and of itself unless there is some bridge involvement. And chipping a piano even a half-step high seems to be way more than necessary. I have typically chipped the piano about 25 cents sharp, watched it fall, then chipped it again 10 cents sharp before actually tuning it, with very stable results. 

Paul


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr at srvinet.com>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:46 pm
Subject: Re: sharp tuning
















Hi Wim,


I suspect there will be a slurry of false beating 
sounds in the upper range of this instrument, caused by over stretching of the 
wire beyond it's elasticity.


Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com



  
----- Original Message ----- 

  
From: 
  Willem Blees 
  

  
To: pianotech at ptg.org 

  
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:03 
  AM

  
Subject: Re: sharp tuning

  


Noah

Who ever restrung this piano really took a 
  chance tuning the piano a whole step sharp.?I chip a piano a half a step 
  high, but even my first tuning is only 25 cents high. I don't think this 
  dealer?understands what is happening to this piano. Is he telling you to 
  keep it a whole step high because he doesn't want to pay you to do more than 
  just a tuning, or does he think customers?won't notice. In my opinion, he 
  is not being honest with him self, much less his customers. 


  
Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano 
  Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano 
  Tuning
available from Potter 
  Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: 
  Noah Haverkamp <noahhaverkamp at yahoo.com>
To: 
  pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 2:01 am
Subject: sharp 
  tuning


  
i began to do a 
  floor tuning at a warehouse last week and A4 was tuned as B4. i tuned it to 
  A440. A3 was B3, so i tuned it to A220. about 3 notes later i felt really 
  weird, so i informed the boss what was going on and was told to tune it where 
  it was at. it had just received new strings. 

well that made it easier 
  to tune, but i mean, ive never heard of tuning a piano a whole tone sharp. 
  


Noah Haverkamp 
Know-a Piano 
  
http://www.knowapiano.com 
347-308-0094 
Fax: 
  718-701-2071 

  

  


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