What's CLP? A lubricant that will ease the rusty bearing points without creeping into the tuning pins? || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| || ||| JASON KANTER * PIANO TUNING jkanter@rollingball.com 425 562 4127 * fax 425 562 4132 > From: "Kevin E. Ramsey" <ramsey@extremezone.com> > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:23:57 -0700 > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Subject: Re: Wim/Pitch raise experiment > > If we're taking a vote here, you can count me with Greg and Joe. Last > Friday I did a 114 cent pitch raise on one of those big ol' Cable uprights, > made in about 1925. It was a little like tip-toeing through a mine field, > but didn't break a single string. Used CLP, just as a preventative measure. > Checked bridges and struts before I started too. Good thing it was the last > one of the day. I decided right then, that the next time I do that I'm going > to have to charge more than I did this time. ( Which was my normal fee times > 1.5) Next time, it's double. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 3:29 PM > Subject: Re: Wim/Pitch raise experiment > > >> Dave, Wim and list, >> You may wish to start lubricating the strings with Protek CPL before >> tuning these old beasts. I'm with Joe on this one. What good is a piano >> that's perpetually flat in pitch? Isn't ear training just as important as >> finger training? I raise pitch on these old beasties all the time. They >> have all come through just fine without so much as a whimper. I'm sure >> your also aware of how much livelier they sound when up to the pitch they >> were designed for. Never fails to get a "WOW" from the customer. >> my two cents. >> > >
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