to A442 & back(D)

[David Renaud]

Steinway D, in a Hall.

Artist shows up 12 noon, announces it must be A442.
So I crank fast 8 cents and leave, returning
just before the show to tune.

Cranked it back down this morning, 
I actually found this more difficult then 
bringing it up, three passes, it still is not
as stable as it was before I began. Mind you
it had been tuned many times lately.

Questions:

1) Is it my imagination because I am looking for it,
or does this really destabilize a 9 foot as much as I
think it has. I am finding I have  to reseat strings
on the bridge, and go over, and over certain sections.
And the piano was getting so stable before....

2) How many would refuse to do this. It concerns me
because the request  could come often on account of
location. This hall using lots of Quebec based touring
acts out of Montreal. I am in Quebec, at the border of
Ontario. Since Montreal symphony uses A442, some
musicians insist on it, and some insist on A440. 
  I could see this request once a month. After doing
it once, It does not excited me.  I have only recently
acquired a couple D's to tune for 2 halls, and
apparently a 9 foot board is mighty "flexible" if that
is the right word, ie: it perhaps moves more. 

                         Dave Renaud
                         RPT
                         Canada

                      
                          












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