This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_006E_01C464BE.70463670 Hello Julia, Be careful with your "Subject" titles. Your post got filtered into the = spam file on my machine. "Swollen?" ;-) Yes indeed, you are proceeding correctly. This is called "floating the = pitch". As long as you are not tuning for a concert or some other = situation where exact A440 pitch is critical, I also always float the = pitch. I will (almost) always bring a piano up to A440 if it is below, = but if it is above A440, I tune it where it is and sleep well knowing = that it will eventually drop in pitch. The only time I stray from that = course might be on an old piano where I am concerned about string = integrity - maybe the middle of the piano is at A442 (or higher) and the = high treble is flat - if I am concerned about the treble wires breaking = (and maybe it is a piano that was designed for A435), I might tune the = beast to A440 (or A435). Also, in air-conditioned Florida homes, we = don't have the range of seasonal RH swings that you would experience = where you are, so I have the luxury of pretty much always floating the = pitch. I guess if you are tuning a piano in a non-air-conditioned church = in February, the RH is 10%, the pre-tuned pitch is A438, and they only = tune once per year, it is likely the best course to leave it at A438, = knowing that in July it will be well above A440. Make sense? =20 =20 Greetings,=20 If the pianos are "swollen" just now (summertime), due = to the humid mountanous atmosphere of this part of Pennsylvania, is it = OK to tune above A440? I have been tuning for alittle over a year now. I have = found that pianos which the customer tells me havent been tuned for 5 or = more years, are very close to A440, yet they are terribly out of tune as = far as unisons and horribly flat upper ocataves. In other words, I will get a call to have a piano = tuned and am told its been 5 plus yaears since last tuning, yet the A = below middle C is right on or near 440. Other pianos I go to, the = customer will say it's been 2 years and these are actually a few beats = above A440.=20 I never turn them back to A440, I figure they are = swelled right now, and if I turn them down to 440 now, then, when the = summer is over they will go below 440 when the heat goes on. Last = summer, I had my first few tunings and I turned pianos back down to 440 = and I was wondering if my fork was off...This year I figured it out. I = think I am correct, but I want to be sure on this.=20 This year, (with my whole whopping 16 months = expertise) If I go into a situation and its a few beats above 440 I = tune it right there. In fact, if the customer doesnt have a dehumidifer = or ar conditioning, I even pull the piano up a bit to be alittle above = A440. Pianos "should" be sharp just now, right? How am I on this? Am I = figuring OK on this? Thanks=20 Julia Gottchall, Reading, PA =20 ------=_NextPart_001_006E_01C464BE.70463670 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d2/00/39/79/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_006E_01C464BE.70463670-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/png Size: 9459 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/41/34/1f/6b/attachment.png ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 65 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/83/43/21/03/attachment.obj ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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