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Pitch correction overshoots for pianofortes

  • 1.  Pitch correction overshoots for pianofortes

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 3 hours ago

    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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