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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>"what gives????"</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They don't have humidity =
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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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.
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On the first piano, (a Kawaii studio upright) I thought: "Ok this
<B><I>is</B></I> 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:
<BR>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
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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!!!??<BR>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 <I>regularly </I>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????<BR><BR><BR>Julia =
Gottchall.
<BR>Reading, PA<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>