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Julie,<br>
Have you decided how much they will fall when the seasonal humidity swing
settles in? I have a similar situation in NM where everyone
(almost) uses evaporative coolers and I recommend two tunings a year, one
at the beginning of the summer cooling season and one after it. I
also leave Dampp-Chaser brochures and have sold a few.<br>
Remember the seasonal change doesn't effect tuning smoothly across the
sound-board. The middle, low tension area, is effected
most.<br><br>
Andrew<br>
At 01:06 AM 7/8/2004 -0400, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font size=2>Greetings, <br><br>
If the pianos are "swollen" just now (summertime), due to the
humid mountanous atmosphere of this part of Pennsylvania, is it OK to
tune above A440?<br><br>
I have been tuning for alittle over a year now. I have found that pianos
which the customer tells me havent been tuned for 5 or more years, are
very close to A440, yet they are terribly out of tune as far as unisons
and horribly flat upper ocataves.<br><br>
In other words, I will get a call to have a piano tuned and am told its
been 5 plus yaears since last tuning, yet the A below middle C is right
on or near 440. Other pianos I go to, the customer will say it's been 2
years and these are actually a few beats above A440. <br><br>
I never turn them back to A440, I figure they are swelled right now, and
if I turn them down to 440 now, then, when the summer is over they will
go below 440 when the heat goes on. Last summer, I had my first few
tunings and I turned pianos back down to 440 and I was wondering if my
fork was off...This year I figured it out. I think I am correct, but I
want to be sure on this. <br><br>
This year, (with my whole whopping 16 months expertise) If I go
into a situation and its a few beats above 440 I tune it <i>right
there</i>. In fact, if the customer doesnt have a dehumidifer or ar
conditioning, I even pull the piano up a bit to be alittle above A440.
Pianos "should" be sharp just now, right? How am I on this? Am
I figuring OK on this?<br><br>
Thanks <br>
Julia Gottchall,<br>
Reading, PA </font></blockquote></body>
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