At 21:06 +0100 21/3/08, Gregor _ wrote: >It«s not so seldom that I see pianos a minor third flat. Usualy the >reason is that they were not tuned for 40 years. I bought such a >piano last year and tuned it in several passes up to 440 and it >turned out to be a very very nice piano (from 1900 or so) with a >really great sound (139 cm high) and 440 Hz worked very well. But I >was not brave enough to tune it on 440 first... I see no advantage in doing the job gradually. If anything, the flatter it is the _less_ likelyhood there is of string breakages when it is brought to pitch. I just let down the string slightly first in case there is any rust to break and then yank it up to about A=445 as quick as I can. Then I tune it. I never touch cheap commercial over-damper pianos, but I have several really beautiful pianos that I am converting to under-damper and they will sell for very good money. None of them, I hasten to add, is Irish! JD
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