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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><EM>"In general I donīt do such extreme pitch raises up to
440 Hz in field service."</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Why not? Piano owners pay good $$ for such a
service.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><EM>"I was not brave enough to tune it on 440 first, so
first I tuned it between 1 and 2 half tones flat and went on to 440. I think it
took me 6 or 7 passes that day."</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Six or seven passes? Sounds like a lot of work. You
should be able to do such a pitch raise in two and a half passes. First pass
A440 plus ten cents in the bass and maybe 20 cents on the long bridge. After
that first pass the bass and tenor might be in the range of 30 to 50 cents flat.
The treble will likely be more flat - so go through the treble a second time and
raise it so that it ends up 20 or 30 cents flat. Then go through the entire
scale doing a normal pitch raise with appropriate overpull. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>I do it like that often. Works well.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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size=3></FONT> </DIV>Itīs not so seldom that I see pianos a minor third
flat. Usualy the reason is that they were not tuned for 40 years. I bought
such a piano last year and tuned it in several passes up to 440 and it turned
out to be a very very nice piano (from 1900 or so) with a really great sound
(139 cm high) and 440 Hz worked very well. But I was not brave enough to tune
it on 440 first, so first I tuned it between 1 and 2 half tones flat and went
on to 440. I think it took me 6 or 7 passes that day. That was in November.
Last week I sold it and it was still only 2 cents flat. The reason for beeing
so flat: it stood on a floor heating for 35 years and the seller had it not
let tuned since then. <BR> <BR>In general I donīt do such extreme pitch
raises up to 440 Hz in field service. I do it only if the piano is in my
ownership. Usualy itīs not a problem to communicate that problem to the
customer: Birdcage, some kind of rotten and a third flat? Go and buy a decent
piano or accept the status quo. Canīt afford a decent piano? Okay, bad luck
and I see the problem, but I am only the
messenger.<BR> <BR>Concerning the Lindner Irish plastic pianos: donīt
even try to service or tune them. These "pianos" are the most worse case
scenarios I encountered in my life as piano tuner. And I saw a lot of strange
things in that business.<BR> <BR>Gregor</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>