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<DIV>Julia, </DIV>
<DIV>I would ask you this question. Let's assume you end your tuning =
with the
piano on A=440. Tomorrow the weather changes a bit and the humidity =
goes up.
Where is you tuning at the end of the day or the third day after you =
tuned? If
you are aware of season changes and how they will affect the piano =
it is
only good practice in my opinion to "float" the pitch in some cases. For =
example
leave it slightly low if you know it's going to go sharp in a few weeks. =
Over
all the customer ends up with a piano that's closer to A=440 for a =
longer time.
I'm sure there maybe a few customers, performers, even tuners, that =
can
tell the piano is not A=440, most can not without a fork, tone, ETD. I =
weekly
find fine artists playing with a 20 cent flat or sharp piano and =
not
having the least idea it sharp or flat. There is no reason you =
can't
explain what you are doing to the customer and why it will =
keep the
piano closer to 440. </DIV>
<DIV>The pianos that I tune on a two month basis I will end the =
tunings at
A=440 during the same season. Unless I'm tuning just before =
the heat
come on or summer and the air is about to start, then I will think of
allowing a small amount of pitch "Float". Rich</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 18, 2005 =
8:36
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> One more tuning
question...</DIV>
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face=Arial size=2
FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Greetings,
=
<BR><BR>  =
; Is
one way of doing business for some tuners to just tune the piano =
"where it
is"? In other words, they check the A and if its close enough (or even =
if its
not close to 440 ) just tune the piano so that it is in tune with
=
itself???<BR><BR> &n=
bsp;
And even going further, If they have a regular client, such as a =
church, to do
the above mentioned thing, cleaning up unisons (so as to do a =
"bang-up"
tuning) and then, on every 4th tuning or so pull it back up to A440 or =
alittle
above, so they are set up to repeat the whole process, thereby saving
themselves some time on intermittent tunings, yet leaving the customer =
believing that they are receiving an A440 tuning each and every =
time...when
they aren't receiving a true tuning (as far as proper pitch goes) each =
and
every
=
time??<BR><BR>  =
;
Not that I would do such a thing in my practice. I do not condone it =
either. I
think it is dishonest. My question is do some tooners do this?? is it
possible? <BR> <BR><BR>Julia <BR>Reading,
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