Could be. But if one is going to tune for the public, one needs to have replacement wire, etc. in case something breaks. Don't even ask me how I learned this lesson the hard way about 30+ yrs. ago! :-[ Avery At 03:50 PM 1/16/2006, you wrote: >Or they are afraid of string breakage, because >they don't have easy access to new ones. >John M. Ross >Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada >jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca >----- Original Message ----- From: "PIANISSIMO >PIANOFORTE S.L." <patrick@pianospianissimo.com> >To: "An open list, for piano technicians" <pianotech@ptg.org> >Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:07 PM >Subject: Re: Tuning Standard > > >>"Or because they don't want to go to the trouble/risk of raising it to >>>standard pitch. >>>Which is probably the reason! >>> >>>Avery" >> >>I will have to agree with that one! similar thing over here in Spain i >>suppose (although the pitch is usually not as low as that). Also, I think >>that most unproperly trained techs hardly ever raise the pitch (they think >>they have to tune the piano 4 times or so to do it!) but mainly, is >>because they cant be bothered >> >>Or perhaps their tuning forks have gone flat with te heat! :) >> >>Patrick >> >> >> >> >>Patrick Hinves Ballesta >>Afinador/Técnico 610442371 >>PIANISSIMO PIANOFORTE S.L. >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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