I'm curious as to how you go about pitch raising a wooden frame piano? I've done several before and each time it makes a mockery of my sensibilities. They do not follow the normal rules of pitch changes. Some of them you can tune in 5 passes and at the end of all that , A49 ends up at the same pitch that you started out with. I have about 25 of these savage beasts on my records. Some of them are as follows; Hartman 1860 Collard & Collard 1860 Erard 1847 B Squire 1859 A Bord 1891 John Broadwood 1893 Erard 1830 Challen 1885 James MacBeth 1870 Murdoch McKillop 1885 Hopkinson s/n 12 1835 B Squire 1870 Challen & Hodgson 1875 John Broadwood 1869 William Ross 1860 Henry Ward 1861 What is interesting is that some were still being produced way after the invention of the full iron frame. I know that in previous centuries, nuns in the Convents were taught to tune their own pianos mainly because these old wooden framed efforts (the pianos, not the nuns) needed tuning every day. AF ----- Original Message ----- From: Philippe Errembault To: Pianotech List Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:57 PM Subject: Re: Is it a good idea to tuned on itself a piano outtuned becuse ofhumidity Well, because I use it !!! but with the wooden frame, it moves quite much with humidity variations. the point is the Damp-chaser is probably much more expensive than the value of the piano... Now, if I ever have to change the piano, maybe I could move the damp-chaser to the new one !?! Philippe Errembault ----- Original Message ----- From: Stéphane Collin To: Pianotech List Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 2:37 PM Subject: Re: Is it a good idea to tuned on itself a pianoouttunedbecuseofhumidity Hi Philippe. If the piano is not worth preserving it, why would you preserve it ? Stéphane Collin. ----- Original Message ----- From: Philippe Errembault To: Pianotech List Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:32 AM Subject: Re: Is it a good idea to tuned on itself a piano outtunedbecuseofhumidity I thought about this, don't you think this is quite expensive in regard of the value of the piano ? Philippe Errembault ----- Original Message ----- From: Stéphane Collin To: Pianotech List Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 12:05 AM Subject: Re: Is it a good idea to tuned on itself a piano outtuned becuseofhumidity Buy a Damp-chaser (is is two m or two p or two hyphens ?) Stéphane Collin. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060818/427b4915/attachment-0001.html
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