Story and Clark not tuned for 30 years!!

[Farrell]

I have long wondered where the philosophy of "you can't raise the pitch that 
much" or "you can't raise the pitch of certain pianos" came from. Can you 
expand on what that course instructs its students to do with a below-pitch 
piano? Any additional info would be very interesting.

I ask this because it is so incredibly common to go to a flat piano, tell 
the owner it needs a 100-cent (or whatever) pitch raise, and have the owner 
say that the last piano tuner said you couldn't raise the pitch. I've always 
wondered where that came from. I had figured they simply did not know how to 
raise the piano pitch - or they did not know how to replace a string - so 
they just didn't do it. But I was not aware of any institution actually 
teaching such a practice (or lack thereof).

I leave one or two pianos flat per year because of some sort of extenuating 
circumstances. Every other one though gets yanked up to standard pitch!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
> The piano tuning curriculum I took, The American School of Piano Tuning, 
> recommended against it. From the replies I've received on this post, 
> though, it seems that is unnecessary if you take the proper care.
> Sam Choy