to A442 & back(D)

[Joe And Penny Goss]

David,
Right or wrong,
I tend to believe that bring a piano down to pitch is harder, perhaps
becuase we are not called upon to bring them down as much as we need to
raise the pitch.

Another issue might be that the larger the piano the more unstable it will
be in reacting to any pitch change.
To me it is much like making a barbed wire gate.  Two strands are rather
simple to balance on the two posts, three managable, four difficult, and
five almost impossible.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Renaud" <drjazzca@yahoo.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: to A442 & back(D)


> Steinway D, in a Hall.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Questions:
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> 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....
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> 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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