<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks everyone. Customer wants to use it for recording with other instruments. I'll give 440 a try. I told him I was not responsible for broken string and he understood.<div><br></div><div>I'll report back.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Feb 16, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Dale Erwin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">I<font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">'ve always tuned em at 440 Al.  I believe by then the pitch wars were largely over.<br> <br> <div style="clear:both"><font color="royalblue" size="1"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin RPT-</font><br> </font></font></b></font><font color="royalblue" size="1"><font color="blueviolet"><b><font color="black" size="2"><font size="1"></font></font></b></font></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black">Mason & Hamlin</font>/Steinway/<font color="black">U.S pianos</font><br> </font><font color="mediumblue">Pre-hung Ronsen hammer sets/Abel parts</font></font><br> </font>Sitka Soundboards & Supplies<br> <font color="black"><a href="http://WWW.Erwinspiano.com">WWW.Erwinspiano.com</a></font><br> <font color="crimson">209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft <<a href="mailto:alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com">alliedpianocraft@hotmail.com</a>><br> To: Pianotech List <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> Sent: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 10:39 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] 1891 Steinway Upright<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_20b76760-ab32-44e9-ad72-fa87aee2a001"> <br> <div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "> <div>Was an 1891 Steinway upright designed to be tuned to 440, or should it be tuned to a lower pitch? Haven't tuned these old Steinway uprights. I got a call from a new customer who would like the piano tuned to 440 and doesn't know when the piano was tuned last.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Al -</div> <div>High Point, NC</div> <div><br> </div> </span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br> </div>  </div> </font></font></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>