<!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 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Corte, let me ask you this; do you ever = find yourself doing the second pass, and you do a test blow that ends up = being five or six cents flat?  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The time for test blows is indeed after = the pitch raise (and during it, but definately after it also) . The speaking = length may indeed be at pitch, but if you don't have all segments of the string = up to tension, it's going to go south. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After doing a pitch raise, I don't = really feel like yanking the strings up all over again. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just something for you to think about = while you're out there tuning, that's all.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=cswearingen@daigger.com href="mailto:cswearingen@daigger.com">cswearingen@daigger.com</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 10, 2003 = 12:47 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Pitch Raise, was: = Standard Pitch</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Like Terry, I'm a bit confused on = this as well.  To me, the purpose of a<BR>pitch raise is not to = necessarily leave a note sharp, it's to leave a note<BR>a close to the target pitch as = you can.  Some notes will be slightly sharp<BR>of target and some = will be slightly flat of target.  If I do a pitch raise,<BR>there is no = need to do a subsequent rough tuning - just a fine tuning.<BR><BR>Corte Swearingen<BR>Chicago<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>