Just out of curiosity, is there anything denoting the high performance model of the Winter? A letter before the serial #, for example?..;-] David I. ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 08:18:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes? >Hello Kevin. I was raising the pitch of a massive high performance Winter spinet >yesterday a full half-step. And I was thinking that it would go faster if I were to strip mute >the piano, PR just the middle strings, then go back a do the unisons. Do you do >Terry Farrell > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <ramsey@extremezone.com> >To: <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:30 PM >Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes? >Joe, glad it works for you, however, I find that the bass requires a twenty percent >over-pull. Perhaps our methods differ; during a pitch raise, I tune the single bass strings >and one string of each bi-chord first, then I pull out the strip and tune uniso Please >clarify. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joe And Penny Goss > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:46 PM > Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes? > Kevin, > If the bass is about 30 cents flat I want to raise the note about three cents sharp ( >about 10% ) of pitch. So with a SATlll that raises the pitch 25% that would result in too >much over pull for me so I will set the over pull for 12 cents and roll the I take only one >measurement at A2 to arrive at my over pull. Works very well for me. > I use the 25% in the tenor and about C4 the 30% to the top then retune. > On pianos 25% or less flat or sharp I use the Verituner 100 and its 10% bass, 30% >tenor, > and 36% treble and retune. > Joe Goss > imatunr@srvinet.com > www.mothergoosetools.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kevin E. Ramsey > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:40 PM > Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes? > > > > All wound strings: 1/5 (Example: You test 10 notes, or so, and find > them > > about 30 cents flat. You would set your ETD to +6 cents sharp and tune > those > > strings to that setting.) > Here's another little brain saver: What if you're pitch raising a piano and want to >do a 20% overpull in the bass, and it's, say, 28 cent's flat. (let's see, one fifth of twenty >eight would be ......... ah........ ah........) > Take 28, and double it for 56. Move the decimal point over to the left one place. > 5.6 is 1/20th of 28. > At least, that's how I do it.
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