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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Ron Nossaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">Mike Spalding wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">List,<br><br>I need to go back through the archives and see where all the proponents of floating live and work. Surely not in the temperate zones of North America. Today I tuned a Yamaha P22 at the local elementary school. It was last tuned in March, to A=440 at about 38%RH. Piano pitch at 68% RH today was: A0 +0, A1 +3, A2 +5, A3 +18, A4 +12, A5 +24, A6 + 35, A7 +20. No matter where I decide to set the pitch of this piano, it's going to require a pitch correction. Floating wouldn't save me any time or effort, nor would it improve the stability of the piano. This is the norm for the upper midwest, and I suspect for much of the country. Floating might work on the coast or in the desert, but not here.<br>
<br>Mike<br></blockquote><br><br></div></div>Same here. Schools and churches all getting tuned. Last done in February at a typical RH% of 25-30, now a yard sharp at RH% of 65-75. Not a single one of them is interested in paying for pitch corrections, so they all get one pass, best shot. And as early as a month from now, the heat could well be on, driving them all flat again.<br>
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<div><br>I used to float pitch at the high schools I tune for around here but others in my chapter shamed me into lowering pitch to A-440 until the heat comes on then they drop like a stone!</div>
<div>The one school is on former swampland that was drained and filled to build the high school!</div>
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<div>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. <br>Walter Chrysler <br>
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