In a message dated 12/22/99 5:11:57 PM !!!First Boot!!!, pianoserv440@juno.com writes: << As "luck" would have it, I had to tune a customer's piano at 7:00pm last night. Pre 1900 Beckwith ( made/sold by Sears ). Typical of the last piano of a day for a very tired tuner - 4 hammers missing, cracked high treble bridge, and 96c low of A-440. ( Yeah, I know that standard pitch was 435 when that piano was built. ) The lady told me it belonged to her grandparents whom, she remembers, talked about tuning it - several times, but does not remember it ever being done. Went over it once to bring it to 50c low, then with her OK went the rest the way to A-440 with no string breakage. All that except for the last octave where the bridge is split. Oh, and yes, I will be working on it again next week - in the evening again. :-( John Fortiner Billings, MT. >> I guess if you like that sort of thing, it's OK. I am getting to the point in my career where I no longer make appointments after 5 PM, unless it is a real emergency of one of my regular customers. I have also gotten to the point where I don't "do" old uprights any more, if I can avoid them. As far as raising pitch. That is a definite NO NO on my part. I tune them where they're at. Less chance of anything breaking. Willem
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