Oh, gosh I wish I wrote it all down. I think it had a "Magic Touch" action, and "Unitized Construction". It likely also had a "Mezzo-Thermal-Stabilized Soundboard", but I saw no such claim. Maybe the sticker had worn off. See, I wasn't just making that up, it's for real! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 11:30 AM Subject: Re: Pitch Raises ... Multiple Passes? > 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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