Hedges and Pianos (OT)

[Alan R. Barnard]

Too much mute moving for me ...

Alan Barnard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Chick (EarthLink)" <tune4@earthlink.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: Hedges and Pianos (OT)


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:51 AM
> Subject: Hedges and Pianos (OT)
>
>
> > Maybe I should go in one direction for the first pass (from A0 to C8)
and
> > then go the opposite direction on the second pass!
> >
> > So I think I'll try it.  Next time I come across a Betsy Ross spinet
> that's
> > 150 cents flat, I'll take the hedge trimmer and move from left to right,
> and
> > then go in the opposite direction for my second pass.
> >
> > I'll bet when I'm done, that piano would never have sounded better.
> >
> > Tom Sivak
>
>
> Tom
> I've been using a "reverse" pattern for a number of years, tuning from the
> temperament octave up to C8 tuning the center strings, then back down to
the
> break tuning one side of the unisons, then back up to C8 on the other
side.
> It works well for pitch raises and the piano is very stable.
>
> Paul Chick
>