This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment I just sent off much of the thread on hearing to my audiologist who has known nothing of tuners or singers needs until I came along. I am hoping she will become concerned enough to try to offer some helpful observations. I am wondering if we need to inform customers that every tuning potentially compromises hearing, and thus pitch raising should become more a financial consideration than certainly I have given it. Using TuneLab, I normally go through pianos twice as a matter of course. After reviewing all the posts, I am wondering if informing customers what the additional noise "costs" us, they should bear that cost financially when they let their pianos get in horrible shape due to neglect. I would be interested in knowing at what point of deviation techs begin to charge extra for pitch raises. Of course I know that this will be affected somewhat by the level of piano. A PSO can tolerate a lot more messing with than a D. Yet at some point decisions have to be made. I had to do a 150-250 cent raise last week.... A plug for the impact hammer- what an energy saver! I don't use it for final passes yet, but at some point probably will. That isn't germane, except that the more I practice with it, the closer I come to "one click" accuracy for pitch raising, thus lessening the amount of ear strain involved. (I had to raise a Hamburg D 15 cents this weekend for a piano competition......... This piano is at a university. The school is on contract with one of the local stores...............) les bartlett ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 3178 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/ed/d4/d2/a6/winmail.dat ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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