Overpulling a Steinway

Andrew & Rebeca Anderson anrebe@zianet.com
Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:01:52 -0700


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Julia,
Did you document humidity and compare with the present.  Of-course, all 
bets are of with an unknown tooner/tuner in the mix.

Andrew
At 07:32 PM 3/18/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>
>            Is it possible that I pulled this one Steinway console over 
> pitch when I did a pitch raise last year? When I left the piano last 
> March I had it up to A-440, and when I went back this year it was 8-9 
> beats sharp across the board.  Is it possible the thing could have "crept 
> up"???
>            The owner told me that she had someone else in to tune it in 
> September again. I think the other tuner over pulled it, but am not so 
> sure about that. Since Steinways are notoriously "friction" pianos maybe 
> all the notes' tension "equalized" between the da capo and the pin, 
> causing it to sharpen acros the board.
>
>Julia,
>Reading, PA

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