Really, 20 cents, and you can get clean, stable unisons at pitch in one pass? I am not able to do that. In fact, I had been routinely pitch-raising home pianos that were substantially more than 4 cents off until I read in the PTG published pamphlet that the "standard" for when a pitch raise was needed was 8 cents. I tried that a couple of times, with unsatisfactory results. So I'm back to around 4 cents for home use and 2 cents for critical situations (concerts and recordings). How do you do it? Alan Eder Alan, I've notice that it depends on how off-pitch the entire piano is. If I measure A4 as flat by 4 cents or so, but the rest of the piano is flatter in sections, then i do a pitch correction for sure, but if the rest of the piano is about that flat, then I feel I can safely pull it up without anything falling back flat. It might be my imagination, but I don't feel that I can do the same thing if it's sharp. I usually do a pitch correction if the piano is even 4 cents sharp, all over of course. Daniel Carlton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090403/4f56776a/attachment.html>
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