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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Julia,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Be careful with your "Subject" titles. =
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got filtered into the spam file on my machine. "Swollen?" =
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes indeed, you are proceeding =
correctly. This is
called "floating the pitch". As long as you are not tuning for a concert =
or some
other situation where exact A440 pitch is critical, I also always float =
the
pitch. I will (almost) always bring a piano up to A440 if it is =
below, but
if it is above A440, I tune it where it is and sleep well knowing that =
it will
eventually drop in pitch. The only time I stray from that course might =
be on an
old piano where I am concerned about string integrity - maybe the middle =
of
the piano is at A442 (or higher) and the high treble is flat - if I =
am
concerned about the treble wires breaking (and maybe it is a piano that =
was
designed for A435), I might tune the beast to A440 (or A435). Also, in
air-conditioned Florida homes, we don't have the range of seasonal =
RH
swings that you would experience where you are, so I have the luxury of =
pretty
much always floating the pitch. I guess if you are tuning a piano in a
non-air-conditioned church in February, the RH is 10%, the =
pre-tuned pitch
is A438, and they only tune once per year, it is likely the best course =
to leave
it at A438, knowing that in July it will be well above
A440.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Make sense?</FONT></DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">Greetings,
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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
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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
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ocataves.<BR><BR> &n=
bsp;
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.
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;
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.
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;
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,
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