<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: Tuning</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>Cy wrote: "pitch-raising (one pass, every time)" Every time? Even when the piano is a full step or more flat???????? That would mean you're pulling treble strings in the range of 75+ cents sharp...... Shirley you don't really mean.......  ;-) Terry Farrell </BLOCKQUOTE> OK kids----- I rarely do major pitch raises (50-100 cents) at this point in my California career. Yesterday I did one---100 cents---on a Schumann massive upright, 1906, in a recording studio where I’m maintaining 3 and soon to be 4 uprights in various stages of decay---the pop music producers that use this studio love to use the “old upright” tones as pads, like other people use synthesizers---we need to maintain and upgrade them mechanically without disturbing the “tonal pocket” of old strings and thrashed hammers.  Anyway, this sucker hadn’t been tuned in, I’m guessing, 25-30 years. 1/2 step low. One quick rough aural pass---setting A4 about 6 cents sharp, no overpull in the bottom, and maybe 20% overpull in octaves 6-7, less in octave 8. Because I didn’t want to break a string I slowed down, and it took me 35 minutes. One fine tuning; everything except the top 12 notes were about 2 cents flat when I started the fine pass---my ideal tuning platform. About 75 minutes. I caressed the coils and the upper bearing points with Protek CLP before I started. It was used to record today. The studio owner “loved it, dude.” Who says old geezers like me can’t kick ass?  :--) David Andersen </BODY> </HTML>