One more tuning question...

[gordon stelter]

I agree. And a  lot of the "tooners" around here have
"tooned" pianos that were rock-solid and had tight
pins to their extant pitch.  Lazy, I calls it!
BUT if a piano is WAY below pitch, pulling it up CAN
produce a  lot of nasty ringing in the treble, due to
misplaced kinks in the wire from where they long
rested against the bridge poins. had one today like
that.
     Thump

--- Terry <terry@farrellpiano.com> wrote:

> I also service mostly older pianos. I leave maybe
> one or two a year below A440 (rusty, breaking
> strings, little old lady w/ no money, etc.). Why
> would "whats in front of me" pose a barrier to
> tuning at A440? Ya puts yer lever on the tuning pin
> in front of you and you crank it!
> 
> Terry Farrell
> 
>   Wether a piano gets the 440 treatment depends on
> what its used for and the client. I don"t know about
> you listers...but not all my pianos I service are
> new, and have already been neglected for years. I
> can only do what I can with whats in front of me. I
> don't consider myself a "tooner" because of it.
> 
>   Alpha88x@aol.com wrote: 
>     Greetings, 
> 
>                 Is one way of doing business for
> some tuners to just tune the piano "where it is"? In
> other words, they check the A and if its close
> enough (or even if its not close to 440 ) just tune
> the piano so that it is in tune with itself???
> 
>                And even going further, If they have
> a regular client, such as a church, to do the above
> mentioned thing, cleaning up unisons (so as to do a
> "bang-up" tuning) and then, on every 4th tuning or
> so pull it back up to A440 or alittle above, so they
> are set up to repeat the whole process, thereby
> saving themselves some time on intermittent tunings,
> yet leaving the customer believing that they are
> receiving an A440 ! tuning each and every
> time...when they aren't receiving a true tuning (as
> far as proper pitch goes) each and every time??
> 
>                 Not that I would do such a thing in
> my practice. I do not condone it either. I think it
> is dishonest. My question is do some tooners do
> this?? is it possible? 
>         
> 
>     Julia 
>     Reading, PA
> 
> 
> 
>   Richard
>   the "Piano Guy"



		
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