Hi All, I came across an old, 1925, Gulbranson upright an ex-player with a 3/4 plate that was extremly flat today. I tried to sample the a's with my Cyber tuner but they wouldn't read so I kept trying different notes, finally the C's worked and registered as A's. I used the pitch raise feature to raise the bass and lower tenor then used my temperment strips to strip the piano all the way to the top and tuned the center strings by ear using octaves then tuned the unisons pulling the strips out one string at a time. I then re-set the Cyber tuner to the smart tune feature and re-tuned the bass and tenor. As I was tuning A3 the Cybertuner showed the original pitch of that note to have been -179c and others around it in that general range 170's and 160's No strings broke although they were rusty looking, I finally found a use for that Protek I've been hauling around, I used a q-tip and put some Protek on the strings at the pressure bar and v-bar. I'm scheduled to go back next week to re-tune it and again a couple of weeks after that. I've done full tone pitch raises but never one this bad! Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090818/34c62357/attachment-0001.htm>
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