Since we are on the topic, when would you decide to NOT do a pitch raise and tune the piano flat? For example, I am sure we would pitch raise old uprights that need it, but what if the piano (upright) is 100 years old, 200 cents flat AND equipped with a player? TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com --- On Sat, 5/15/10, Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com> wrote: From: Ed Foote <a440a at aol.com> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Catastrophic Events While Tuning... To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 5:46 PM I remember a bass string break in 1976. I think Aaron Bousel was tuning a 9' M&H at Harvard when the North Bennet class was over there getting our feet wet. It broke at the hitch pin and the end of this thing went whizzing by his head. I have often wondered how far into me the end of a freshly broken string would go. Anybody got any experience? I always wear glasses to tune, but has anybody ever really had blood drawn by a breaking string? (And I wonder why more older violinists don't have blind left eyes...) Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100515/ba749f58/attachment.htm>
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