<HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY>You never know exactly what's going to happen to= pitch...the solution?  Don't be such a stickler for= A440.  Sharp of A440 is just find.   Leave it= where it's at and what happens next time. David= I. <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px;= PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid;= PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message From: <ALPHA88X@AOL.COM> To:= <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG> Received: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:37:26= EST Subject: A tuning question <FONT= face=arial,helvetica> Greetings,=          &n= bsp;     In Feb '04 I tuned two church pianos= that were below pitch. They were  down at about A430 or= less. After I was done they were A440. I did pitch raises. This= year, I went back and found that both pianos were about 10= cycles sharp...and this is February...the heat has been on for= 4+ months the things should be flat, if anything, right? But= nooo.... they're sharp.=          &n= bsp;    On the first piano, (a Kawaii studio= upright) I thought: "Ok this is in a basement= (choir rehearsal room) and it could be that moisture absorbed= into the thing and so it's sharp". However, when I got upstairs= to the sanctuary ( a Steinway console)  piano, its even= sharper(!) (about 3 cycles sharper than the one in the basement)= and a little business card of another tuner is in there; a date= on it reads: 8-9-04  A440...along with a list of other= dates that indicated that they were tuned twice a year by this= tuner. (That card with dates was in there last February= too).         &nb= sp;     I am a stickler for A440 so today I= took each of the pianos and made them A4440 again. My question= is: WHY? Why were these pianos so ***@#$*#$%^%= sharp!!!?? Could it be that the other tuner turned them up in= August 04 after I was there in Feb '04?  The story was when= I was called in that were tuned regularly by this other= tuner, (the card indicated such)  Yet, the pianos were so= flat when I was called in, in Feb '04 that I had to pull them= both up....what gives???? Julia Gottchall.= Reading,= PA </DIV></BODY></HTML>