Well gosh, 40% overpull on a 25-cent pitch raise is only ten cents! Geeeesssshhhhh! ;-) Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- In all my years of doing this, I've never run into a piano where the monochords needed that much of an overpull! I, too, would be afraid to do that! IMO, it isn't necessary. I don't even use the PR function on the SAT for the bass strings. I start with #1 and just pull them a little sharp and go! They usually come out pretty close. Avery Todd University of Houston At 09:46 AM 7/8/2006, you wrote: I've been chicken to try that big an overpull percent on the monochords, for fear of breaking them. In the TuneLab Pro documentation, Robert Scott recommends 12% for the bass bridge and 30% elsewhere, for small to moderate pitch raises. For better results (tuning unisons as you go, bass to treble): bass bridge 12% tenor bridge to G5 29% G5 to G6 29% increasing to 37% G6 to C8 37% decreasing to 14% (tension gets high up there) TuneLab's ability to measure each string and calculate a precise, individual overpull percentage in realtime is one of its best features, I think. --Cy-- shusterpiano.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2006 3:38 AM Subject: Re: post pitch-raise creep? I use a VT also Andrew, and I find that the upper end of your percent ranges work for me in the tenor and treble. However, I find that the bicord bass needs closer to 25% and for whatever reason - I certainly don't understand it - the monocord bass needs about 40%. I know, I've never heard of anyone using that much overpull in the low bass, but for whatever reason, if I don't, it'll come out flat. Strange. Terry Farrell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060708/8b809830/attachment.html
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