No subject

[H]

 I have also noticed that the A-440 on pianos I tune can be flat giving me
the initial impression that I am going to have to do I little pitch raising
and them findind that most of the other notes in the a to a temperament are
close to pitch . Here are four ideas I have that might help explain this .

1. Because A -440 is the first note that is tuned on a piano and I find that
I have to sort of warm up when tuning a piano I aften spend more time tuning
the middle string of the A than any other string on the piano so I move the
tuning pin around more possibly making the pin less set and stable causing it
to go flat later.

2. It is not uncommon to find the notes above the temperament have gone
slightly flat  when the notes of the temperament are still at pitch . This a
may just be the last note or so among the notes of the upper tenor that has
gone noticably flat.

3. If this is the first sting tuned and a small pitch adjustment is made,
after every other string on the piano has been tuned and increased the
tension on the piano this string may be one of the most likely strings to
have dropped slightly in pitch .

4. It may be that you are most likely to notice this phenomena when the a is
flat and not when some other note is slightly flat. Because we start with the
A and find it flat we think it is telling us something about the state of the
notes around it, but on this piano it may be that it is one of maybe several
strings that are the most flat. The next piano you go to has an A# that is
the most flat of the notes in the temperament but being one of the last notes
tuned and no longer looking for information about the pitch of the piano it
makes little impression on you . You only remenber those that make an
impression and they are the ones with the flat A.

                                         H. Russell Schmidt RPT
                                          Lexington, KY