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Greetings,

I recently spent several days servicing a McNulty copy of a Conrad Graff piano in concert. for the first tuning that I put on this Instrument on each occasion, I did what I normally do with harps accords, which is to simply repeatedly tune it to pitch, with no overshoot.

Since fortepianos seem to fall somewhere between harpsichords and modern Pianos, I wonder if anyone had any advice born of experience about whether or not it is safe to overshoot a ianoforte as one would do with a modern piano, whether it should be done to a lesser degree, or not at all.

Greetings,

I recently spent several days servicing a McNulty copy of a Conrad Graff piano in concert. for the first tuning that I put on this Instrument on each occasion, I did what I normally do with harps accords, which is to simply repeatedly tune it to pitch, with no overshoot.

Since fortepianos seem to fall somewhere between harpsichords and modern Pianos, I wonder if anyone had any advice born of experience about whether or not it is safe to overshoot a ianoforte as one would do with a modern piano, whether it should be done to a lesser degree, or not at all.

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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Original Message:
Sent: 3/13/2026 11:57:00 AM
From: Alan Eder
Subject: Pitch correction overshoots for pianofortes

Greetings,

I recently spent several days servicing a McNulty copy of a Conrad Graff piano in concert. for the first tuning that I put on this Instrument on each occasion, I did what I normally do with harps accords, which is to simply repeatedly tune it to pitch, with no overshoot.

Since fortepianos seem to fall somewhere between harpsichords and modern Pianos, I wonder if anyone had any advice born of experience about whether or not it is safe to overshoot a ianoforte as one would do with a modern piano, whether it should be done to a lesser degree, or not at all.

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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Original Message:
Sent: 3/13/2026 11:57:00 AM
From: Alan Eder
Subject: Pitch correction overshoots for pianofortes

Greetings,

I recently spent several days servicing a McNulty copy of a Conrad Graff piano in concert. for the first tuning that I put on this Instrument on each occasion, I did what I normally do with harps accords, which is to simply repeatedly tune it to pitch, with no overshoot.

Since fortepianos seem to fall somewhere between harpsichords and modern Pianos, I wonder if anyone had any advice born of experience about whether or not it is safe to overshoot a ianoforte as one would do with a modern piano, whether it should be done to a lesser degree, or not at all.

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 3/13/2026 11:57:00 AM
From: Alan Eder
Subject: Pitch correction overshoots for pianofortes

Greetings,

I recently spent several days servicing a McNulty copy of a Conrad Graff piano in concert. for the first tuning that I put on this Instrument on each occasion, I did what I normally do with harps accords, which is to simply repeatedly tune it to pitch, with no overshoot.

Since fortepianos seem to fall somewhere between harpsichords and modern Pianos, I wonder if anyone had any advice born of experience about whether or not it is safe to overshoot a ianoforte as one would do with a modern piano, whether it should be done to a lesser degree, or not at all.

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Alan Eder, RPT
Herb Alpert School of Music
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
661.904.6483
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