Tuesday evening's tuning

[Clyde Hollinger]

Friends,

I ask for a little more information.  "Will this piano be played with any other
instruments, or with a cassette recording?"  If the client is expecting the piano
to be at standard pitch when I'm finished, I want them to understand why it is
not, or what could happen in the process of getting it there if they want the
pitchraise.

Regards,
Clyde Hollinger

PDtek@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 12/22/99 6:38:11 PM Central Standard Time,
> Wimblees@AOL.COM writes:
>
> << 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
>   >>
>
> I'm with you on this one, Wim. An old, long neglected upright is not the same
> situation as a regularly tuned piano. And the main difference is the owner.
> For the most part they have low expectations and they don't want to spend any
> more than they have to. They will most probably follow the same servicing
> guidelines as did the last owner that neglected it for the last twenty years.
> If you do a monster pitch raise it is very unlikely they will follow up with
> the necessary tunings to stabilize the instrument, not to mention the
> probability of breaking a string or two. So you will have a customer that
> paid a lot more than they would have liked to for service on a piano that
> will sound bad again in a month or two, and not one in a hundred of them will
> appreciate the difference between standard pitch and wherever it was.
>
> Dave Bunch