Pitch Raise Speed/etc., was: Steinway vs. The Tuner

[David Ilvedson]

I concur and I don't do a careful pitch raise...zooooooooom and I'm ready to tune.
Slow, careful pitch raises make no sense!  That's why your doing the pitch raise...things are going to change

David I.

PS  I know...this from someone who doesn't even overpull...;-]



----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Don <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:10:30 -0600
Subject: Re: Pitch Raise Speed/etc., was: Steinway vs. The Tuner

>Hi Terry,

>To answer your last question pitch corrections should be based on the most
>recent data available. It is one very good reason to do unisons as you go
>style pitch corrections.

>At 08:05 AM 9/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
>>I agree that one will benefit from doing a separate pitch raise pass on a
>piano that is 4 cents flat (IMHO, even 2 cents). But that implies that when
>you adjust each pin, you will be getting the string pitch to within a cent
>of target.
>>A third pitch raise topic here. I have never seen addressed the phenomenon
>of a piano below pitch dropping even more in pitch while pitch raising
>(hmmm....doesn't seem to make any sense). This especially applies to ETD
>users when calculating overpull. Let's say you have a piano that is
>uniformly 20 cents flat. Start pitch raising at A0 with your 17% and 25%
>overpulls. By the time you get to F5, check the pitch of the strings above
>F5 - they will likely be at least 30 cents flat, if not a bit more flat. So
>the question is then do you base your overpulls on an initial
>characterization of piano pitch, or on the next few strings as you go. I
>always do it on the next few strings as I go.


>Regards,
>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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