<!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 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV>I will restate my first comment.  "I do not tune square grands."  (The last one I did was about 15 years ago and I had back problems for several weeks following the experience so I stopped doing them.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You are absolutely right.  The last 1/4 century was 1975-2000.  I need to be whipped with a recently boiled old bass string for being so stupid.  </DIV> <DIV>Jim</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 01, 2007 5:29 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Do you tune a Square Grand to A-440?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><EM>"I don't tune square grands to any pitch."</EM></FONT>  <FONT size=3>Neat trick. Tunings must go real fast. How do the pianos sound with this approach? What does this approach involve - not altering center string pitch and tuning its unisons to it? Ever been called a year later to tune again?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3><EM>"...used a lot during  the last 1/4 century."</EM>  I'm pretty sure that from 1975 to 200 most pianos were tuned to Standard International Pitch of A=440 Hz.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Anon</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"> </DIV> <DIV>I don't tune square grands to any pitch.  If you want to try it, tune it to the old International pitch of A-435 which was used a lot during  the last 1/4 century.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>I have a client that has a newly strung square grand, should it be tuned to A-440?  Someone told me that square grands were not tuned to A-440 but lower.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Which pitch then, if I may ask?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tim</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>