pitch for 1903 Hinze

[Stephen Grattan]

Hi Alan,

Check the plate real carefully just below the pinblock - it may well be cracked at the tenor/treble break and at the next strut up towards the treble end of the piano.  The crack would probably be vertical - extending from the plate bolt holes.  I just finished rebuilding my second one of these in the past year and both of them were cracked.  Poor design - which I corrected - was the cause of the cracks.  I am keeping  these both 100 cents flat! (they were both family heirlooms)
 
Steve Grattan
Lost Chord Clinic



----- Original Message ----
From: "reggaepass at aol.com" <reggaepass at aol.com>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:15:16 PM
Subject: pitch for 1903 Hinze


List,

A client has a 1903 HInze upright (mfg'd by Kimball, according to the 
Atlas).  It has an open pinblock.  They don't know when it was last 
tuned, but all notes were from 50 to 90 cents flat of A=440.

The question is: does anyone know for sure if this piano was meant to 
be tuned to A=440?  And if not 440, what then?

Thanks,

Alan Eder


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