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

[Farrell]

But if you don't get it real close, its gonna change while you tune it! That why we do a pitch raise - so that things don't change during the tuning.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Pitch Raise Speed/etc., was: Steinway vs. The Tuner


> 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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