Hi Marcel, This is a great description of pitch raising, however, I'd like to offer one caveat about your suggestion to practice tuning lever technique on "speed tuning" pitch raises. If time is taken to set the pin and string when pitch raising, not only will that slow down the "speed tuning" but it will give different results in terms of the results of overpull. If no overpull is done on this first pass, then the piano will be left a little shy of pitch for the fine tuning. Somewhere this needs to be compensated for. When I was starting out, I used to make this mistake and would end up with a consistently sharp piano that I would then have to lower before the final pass. I saw pitch raises as a chance to work on my hammer technique, as you suggest, and for a long time I didn't realize why I was having problems. Now, I realize I've made a few assumptions about what you mean by tuning lever technique, but I think this might be important to address in relationship to pitch raises so as not to confuse our beginners the way I was many years ago. jeannie Jeannie Grassi, RPT Assistant Editor, Piano Technicians Journal mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marcel Carey Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 3:37 PM To: 'Pianotech' Subject: RE : Pitch Raise 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. > > _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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