Hmmmm, maybe is just depends on the quality of tuning desired. But perhaps your customers should be considering humidity control systems! Boy, am I ever glad I don't live in a climate that would cause pitch to vary by 30 cents!!! :-) Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Ross" <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 8:20 PM Subject: Re: Cents: was help with bad tuning... > Sounds like overkill to me. > None of my customers require anything approaching that exactness. > In this area the piano varies in pitch from month to month. I haven't > measured it, but I know from Jan. to Sept. some areas are off by 30c. > So I am sure it could vary from some week to week by 5c, so why would I even > contemplate a pitch raise for 5c. > 20c plus maybe, and then only depending on the situation, as the majority of > my customers value their money more than a supposed required pitch raise. > A lot of them wait 2 or 3 years between tunings anyway. > I guess what I am trying to say, is not all customers need a pitch raise, > for the amounts some of you say. > John M. Ross > Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada > jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey@sbcglobal.net> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:41 PM > Subject: RE: Cents: was help with bad tuning... > > > >I don't know about you, but I pitch raise anything over 5 cents low. 2 > >passes with an extra charge for extra time and EFFORT. > > > > David I. > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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