close enough>??

[Farrell]

Four percent of what?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul E. Dempsey" <dempsey@Marshall.edu>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: close enough>??


Conrad,

Throw the dart would be my answer. The pitch deviations you describe on 
your Yamaha are fairly typical for Yamahas, especially this time of 
year. We have a lot of Yamahas here at MU and the RH in the building 
this morning,9 am, was, according to my Dickson Data Logger, a whooping 
4%....
Yes, that's right FOUR PER CENT.

I've had no more than 15-17% since before Thanksgiving. Pitch raising 
is all I do, inspite of the fact that I let the pitch "float"( 15-20 
cents sharp) beginning in the late fall when the RH was still in the 
80's.

Are we having fun yet?


Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:


>Friends,
>
>I've been lurking on this discussion, and been having my curiosity 
piqued. 
>A collateral question formed in my alleged brain.
>
>
>I know about pitch raises, I just finished one. (Details below)
>I know from previous threads that some tuners charge a per cent 
surcharge 
>for pitch raises - some beginning at 2¢.
>
>
>The piano which I just tuned (1971 Yamaha P2E) had (according to RCT) a 
>pitch of 440.4Hz @ A4. This is just less than 2¢. So, according to the 
>above criterium, it should be a standard tuning.  Right?
>
>HA! Wrong...  Maybe if it were the Hamburg D which I tune every week.
>
>IT NEEDED A PITCH RAISE.
>
>The bass section was 8-23¢ flat, the first two plain unisons were -23¢ 
and 
>-40¢ with the pitch getting to within 4¢ by about F4 and staying there 
>until above the treble break where it went to a fairly constant -15/20¢.
>
>How you gonna charge for this? Average the cents deviation? Pick a note 
at 
>random? Use a dartboard?
>
>Do you have to wait until you are done and _then_ show the customer the 
>record of overpulls?
>
>Big pitch raises on those once-a-decade tunings are no-brainers.
>
>
>Where and (more importantly) _how_ do you draw the line?
>
>Conrad
>
>
>Conrad Hoffsommer - Music Technician
>Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045
>Vox-(563)-387-1204 // Fax (563)-387-1076(Dept.office)
>
>- People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public. -Bryan 
White
>
>
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