Pitch raising

[Stephen Powell]

Ouch, Clyde, how traumatic!!
I think I would have dropped back after about the third breakage.

Best Regards

Stephen
Pianotec@ihug.co.nz

-----Original Message-----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Monday, 18 December 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Pitch raising


>Hi Stephen
>
>I know that I am probably a little too cautious.  That may be because I had
>twelve strings tear on one call.  I don't want that to happen again.
>
>Warm regards,
>Clyde
>
>Stephen Powell wrote:
>
>> Hi Clyde
>>
>> If I have any doubt that a piano will take a pitch raise, then I raise
all
>> of the A's (or C's) first.  If any strings break, then I reassess the
>> situation.  In general, I think that tuners tend to be too cautious when
it
>> comes to pitch raising.  I have done a lot of pitch raising over the
years
>> and have had very few strings break.  But replacing broken strings is
really
>> no big deal, so long as it's only one or two.
>
>