This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You never know exactly what's going to happen to pitch...the= solution? Don't be such a stickler for A440. Sharp of A440 is= just find. Leave it where it's at and what happens next time. David I. Original message From: To: Received: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 16:37:26 EST Subject: A tuning question Greetings, In Feb '04 I tuned two church pianos that were= below pitch. They were down at about A430 or less. After I was= done they were A440. I did pitch raises. This year, I went back= and found that both pianos were about 10 cycles sharp...and this= is February...the heat has been on for 4+ months the things= should be flat, if anything, right? But nooo.... they're sharp.= On the first piano, (a Kawaii studio upright) I= thought: "Ok this is in a basement (choir rehearsal room) and it= could be that moisture absorbed into the thing and so it's= sharp". However, when I got upstairs to the sanctuary ( a= Steinway console) piano, its even sharper(!) (about 3 cycles= sharper than the one in the basement) and a little business card= of another tuner is in there; a date on it reads: 8-9-04 A440...along with a list of other dates that indicated= that they were tuned twice a year by this tuner. (That card with= dates was in there last February too). I am a stickler for A440 so today I took each of= the pianos and made them A4440 again. My question is: WHY? Why= were these pianos so ***@#$*#$%^% sharp!!!?? Could it be that the other tuner turned them up in August 04= after I was there in Feb '04? The story was when I was called= in that were tuned regularly by this other tuner, (the card= indicated such) Yet, the pianos were so flat when I was called= in, in Feb '04 that I had to pull them both up....what= gives???? Julia Gottchall. Reading, PA ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/4f/73/a1/4e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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