pitch of old upright

[Don]

Hi Wim,

I did an analysis of ten years of my tuning. During that time 0.00015% of strings failed. I can see little reason to leave pitch flat to protect strings from failing.

BTW this is not a monetary issue as I do not charge extra for A440. I prefer to schedule another tuning in the near future 

At 01:18 PM 10/12/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>On most old uprights. I don't take any chances of breaking strings, much
>less the soundboard or the plate, and just tune it where it's at. Unless
>this piano needs to be on pitch with other instruments, I don't see the
>need to pull it up, even if it's up to 50 cents flat. 
> 
>   Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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