Old Ivers and Pond to pitch raise or not to...

[Farrell]

Like others have said, pull it up to pitch and get on with it. Chances are strings will not break. One time when stripping down a 100+ yo Everett grand I experimented with the strings to see how high I could pull the strings before breaking. Most broke when pulled 200 - 300 cents sharp!

Terry Farrell
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: KeyKat88 at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:30 PM
  Subject: Old Ivers and Pond to pitch raise or not to...


  Greetings,

            A church got a free Ivers and Pond grand piano given to them. Serial 52183. What is the mfg date? It is 100 cents flat. Upon examination of the bridges, it looks as if some tech shellacked or poly clear coated the entire bridge along with the sound board. I mean the clear coat (whatever it is)(its super glossy) is over all the bearing surfaces as well as down over the sides of the bridges and the sound board as well. The bridges were actually "saved" from further splitting, because there are very slight splits near the bridge pins, but they are all coated.

           The pinblock is like new. I am almost sure it is a replacement.  My gut feeling is not to pitch raise this one, just because of its estimated age. The strings would probably withstand it but I dunno...any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance,
  Julia Gottshall
  Reading, PA





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