If pianos are "swollen" now... then what?

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

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Julie,
Have you decided how much they will fall when the seasonal humidity swing 
settles in?  I have a similar situation in NM where everyone (almost) uses 
evaporative coolers and I recommend two tunings a year, one at the 
beginning of the summer cooling season and one after it.  I also leave 
Dampp-Chaser brochures and have sold a few.
Remember the seasonal change doesn't effect tuning smoothly across the 
sound-board.  The middle, low tension area, is effected most.

Andrew
At 01:06 AM 7/8/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>               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.
>
>                 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.
>
>                 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
>Julia Gottchall,
>Reading, PA

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