Pitch Raise

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Marcel,
I actually enjoyed raising the pitch on the grand.  The employees of the thrift stoer? well that's a different story, one with it's own title page, table of contents and even its' own Libraryof Congress number. :)  

I always panic that I'm going to break a string.  I told a customer of the store who approached me about tuning that string breakage is a possiblity with pitch raising.  I didn't say I might break a string of course.  The problem with that piano was the some or quite a few tuning pins were loose, and I barely had to breathe on the lever to make the pin move.  It sounds funny when a tuning pin is loose and the string just goes crazy.  

I'm hopefully goining to go back on Monday morning and investigate the piano to see if I can do a little more to it.  It's right by the front door which is bad.  The temp. change is aweful on that already pitiful thing.  
Marshall

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From: Marcel Carey <mcpiano@videotron.ca> 

> Now Boys and girls, 
> 
> Pitch raising is nothing but a rough tuning done to bring the piano up 
> to pitch or closer to pitch. The only advantage of ETD (Electronic 
> Tuning Devices) is that they have a program to measure how far flat are 
> the notes just before we tune them and then the program overshoots a 
> certain % above the normal pitch. All this is done with the hope that 
> after the pitch raise (rough tuning), the piano will be close to pitch 
> and tunable in one pass. 
> 
> Now for beginners, Pitch raises are a fantastic opportunity to learn and 
> practice your tuning lever technique. This is the most important thing 
> to practice. You will get the feel for different pianos and tuning pins 
> and see how they react to different techniques of the lever. 
> 
> So, be thankfull when you get to raise the pitch of a piano. Think of 
> the practice and remember that you don't have to listen so hard on the 
> first pass. Just tune it as fast as humanly possible. You'll get very 
> good experience. 
> 
> Marcel Carey, RPT 
> Sherbrooke, QC 
> > 
> > Thanks for your help, Ron. That makes sense, though I wish 
> > there was a more 
> > definite answer. I guess pitch raising aurally is a tricky 
> > skill to learn. 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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