<!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 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The subject is an old and hoary one, I = know, but I had reason to be glad of my pitch raise method this morning. First an = emergency call from Glyndebourne "Tune old upright on rehearsal stage for Battered = Bride" I got the message at my first appointment at 09:30 and knowing = rehearsals start at 10:30 I drove round to the Theatre. Terrible old "Katz" upright with not-tight tuning pins, loose hammer flanges and half-a-semitone flat. Up = to pitch and tightened all flanges by starting time. Went back to client I = had left in the lurch. A 1905 John Brismead, vertically strung = under-damper, a bit more than a tone flat. Now I know these Brinsmeads very well and am = confidant of the quality string they used back then. So I used my = "Quadrant System" to bring it up to A=440 and fine tune it in two hours. No = broken strings and, more importantly, equalised tension over the entire metal = frame all the way through ensured no broken plate! What a difference a whole tone = makes to the sound of a small piano! It gradually came back to life!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards from a cool, windy, sunny yet = cloudy day in the Sussex Downs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael = G.(UK)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>