<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Pitch Raises (was:Paid for Pitch Raises?</title></head><body> <div>><font face="Arial" color="#000000">What's interesting to me in this thread is that no one has mentioned ETD tuining. Using either Tunelab or Cybertuner you can do a one pass pitch raise that sounds like a fine tuning. It is not perfect and may not be quite as stable but tuning each unison carefully as you go, the piano will sound better than most pianos that you find on dealers floors and it will be very close to pitch.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Norm Barrett</font></div> <div><br></div> <div>With the VT 100, I can raise the pitch as much as 4 bps/16 cents and be left with</div> <div>a pretty darned good tuning. Certainly not performance grade but playable. I may</div> <div>pull it to 441 or 442; tune A4 then A3 and proceed upwards with a 10% overpull</div> <div>at A#4.  Sometimes, A4, A3 then start from the bottom of the long bridge and</div> <div>overpull A#4 (and up) by the percentage that A4 has gone flat.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I advise that more frequent tuning will keep the pitch up and make the tuning more stable.</div> <div>If they follow my advice, the piano gets tuned again soon and technical aspects can be</div> <div>addressed.</div> <div><br></div> <div>If they don't get it tuned regularly, I've not wasted my time at the initial visit and the</div> <div>customer doesn't feel like I'm trying to up-sell them.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>