to A442 & back(D)

[Greg Newell]

This is interesting to me as I have never observed an 8 cent correction 
that was as unstable as all you folks lead one to believe.  Could it 
possibly be because the piano is older and the strings just aren't 
rendering as well anymore? If unequal tensions are set up in the various 
string segments that could certainly account for the gross instability that 
is so often talked about.  Any thoughts?

Greg Newell


At 11:03 AM 5/4/2002, you wrote:
>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.
>
>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....
>
>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.
>
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