Pitch raising technique

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Robin,
Yes but only when the piano is over 100 cents low, a chip up to pitch that
is nowhere near where the piano needs to be, but a lot more within shooting
distance of the final target.
Joe Goss
----- Original Message -----
From: Robin Blankenship <itune@new-quest.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: Pitch raising technique


> I'm curious. Do any of you ever use a "deaf" pitch raising approach? That
> is, having determined the amount of total pin/string movement in a
midrange
> sampling, proceeding to turn the other pins a like amount. This relies on
> "muscle memory" as one RPT explained to me years ago. Of course, this is
> only useful when doing a large correction; i.e., 30 cents or more. It is
> very, very crude, but very, very quick. I've been experimenting with it
> lately and am not too good at it yet.
>
> Your comments are welcomed.
>
> Robin Blankenship
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Larry J. Messerly <prescottpiano@juno.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 12:17 AM
> Subject: Pitch raising technique
>
>
> >The talk recently on this list about whole step tuning and muting every
> >other note after the center string is tuned got me to thinking.
> >
> >A couple of pitch raises this week (using SAT II), I tuned from A0 with
> >no over-shoot in the bass, at the plain strings, using 2 mutes(or a split
> >mute), tuned center string (F3 for example) with pitch raise system of
> >SAT II and then moved mute, tuned left string of F3 and center of F#3,
> >move mute, tune left of F#3 and center of G3  ... and so on for an
> >octave, then went backwards and tuned the right strings of all notes,
> >then continued up from where I had stopped to go back and tune the right
> >strings. Takes longer to write than to do. I did the second tuning from
> >C8 down, checking as I went. when I got to the bass it was very close,
> >the bottom octave almost right on, and A4 came out at 440.
> >
> >If it didn't actually save any time, at least it brought a refreshing
> >change to the pattern.
> >
> >Larry Messerly,RPT
> >Prescott/Phoenix
>
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