<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3020" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2><EM>What constitutes a pitch raise, vs just tuning the piano as we normally do?</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>A pitch raise pass involves some amount of overpull and generally precision is not paramount - little attention is paid to getting good unisons - just get them within a couple beats (about the same pitch).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2><EM>What criteria is commonly used, in other words, how 'flat' does</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2><EM>it have to be to trigger the 'pitch-raise' extra charge??</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>That largely depends on the final tuning quality desired. If it is a concert situation, then certainly anything more than about two cents flat would require a separate pitch raise pass. In most situations for me, two to five cents flat will trigger a separate pitch raise pass. Once in a while, for a customer who indicates they cannot pay for a pitch raise, I will raise the pitch maybe up to 10 cents while tuning - all in one pass.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><EM><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT></EM> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2><EM>Is there a common practice, or does it depend on more subjective criteria?</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Like I say, it depends on the final tuning quality desired.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></FONT>----- Original Message ----- </DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>What constitutes a pitch raise, vs just tuning the piano as we normally do?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Invariably, the pianos that I'm tuning have gone 'flat' to some degree</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>thought not evenly, hence the call to the 'tooner'.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>What criteria is commonly used, in other words, how 'flat' does</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>it have to be to trigger the 'pitch-raise' extra charge??</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Is there a common practice, or does it depend on more subjective criteria?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Jim Kinnear</FONT><A href="http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/"><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>/</FONT></A></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>