> could not get it up to the absolutely correct pitch for fear he would > break a lot of strings. (They are the strings that were in there in 1957 > when my mother bought it.) He said that it was about "20 cents off" Hi John, Get another tuner. 20cents off is less than 1/4 tone flat. This guy is jus...

•"Band organs seem to have been made at many pitches other than the "C" centered tuning." This is _speculation_. The higher pitches would be slightly less expensive to produce because of materials, especially in the bass pipes. Also, a higher pitched instrument will sound "brighter", and that would ...

•Here's my _guess_ as to why the pitch of the "beep" in the telephone receiver appears to increase as the earpiece is moved away from the ear. I think it has to do with the quality of acoustic coupling. When the earpiece is in contact with your ear, there is maximum acoustic coupling. An impedance m...

•This afternoon I tuned my player piano as close to normal pitch as possible. The liveliness of that piano went from "halfway" to "very" lively. It sounds so much better and prettier now. I don't believe it had ever been tuned to the pitch I tuned it to this afternoon since 1946. That was the last t...

•Bob, The piano can be brought up to pitch in stages, I've done this with many pianos around here that haven't been tuned in years and years (one Kimball had it's last recorded tuning in 1935). It will take quite a while to do the job, and it will have to be tuned again shortly after he finally gets...

•It is possible that the loudspeaker in the phone doesn't deliver the same pitch at different angles, but it seems more likely that the ear is a more closed resonator when the phone is right up to it, and more open when it is tilted away. The ear does keep growing as we age, so if this is the explan...

•My kids had a "Tuneyville Choo Choo" made by Tomy that has eight fixed-pitch plastic pipes that were played by a plastic disk equipped with pins on that resembled those found on a player barrel. There are four of these disks. The little thing was powered by two size 'C' cells [batteries]. We still ...

•Reg Smith, proprietor of Perfect Pitch Restorations of Athens, Georgia, is seriously ill and hospitalized at Northeast Georgia Regional Medical Center, in Gainesville, Georgia, as of December 26th. According to his sister, Ellen Smith Bryant, and his brother, Laurin Smith, Reg is indeed quite ill a...

•Many interesting thoughts here -- all of which makes one leery of any pitch raising (half written in humor -- or written in half-humor)! I did think of one question to ask those who have had this happen. Was any observation made of the breaks where one could see signs of an old break (rust in the b...

•In case anybody is wondering if there's a way to change the pitch of Wurlitzer 165 recordings to make it sound as if the tune is being played by a Wurlitzer style 157, you're in luck and it can be done in just three easy peasy steps. 1st: Make sure your computer comes with the program VLC Media Pla...

> Q. Can we even agree on what constitutes a large pitch change? Is it > 10 cents, 20 cents, 50 cents? > Musically, John A. Tuttle I feel an appreciable tuning can be performed on a piano which is 4cps flat. Any more than that requires a pitch raising and a tuning. Wether these are performed the sam...

•To tune the xylophone bars: you remove material from the ends of the bars to raise the pitch, and remove material from the center of the underside of the bars to lower the pitch. Bob Godfried, Bronx, NYC godfried@dti.net

•Hi, In regards to David Repanshek's post: Wurlitzer trombones speak at the 8' pitch. That is from C below middle C and up. Wooden trombones in Wurlitzers are mitered 90 degree with no ill effect on the pipes. The problem you might run into with voicing reeds is that the tuning or voicing wire is no...

•On first reading I was skeptical of Art Reblitz's theory as to why some organ pipe ranks have pipes pitched differently than the way they are marked, as is the case with the Wurlitzer 157 band organ. It struck me that such marking would only cause confusion, and would have no purpose. Then, mulling...

•> [ 'Gamma' is a parameter which describes how the ratios of the > [ pipe dimensions change with the pitch/frequency. -- Robbie Hmmm?!? Well, if I understand what you say correctly, then it would be the contrary of what I said: the pipes are not the dimension of Carl Frei. 'Gamma' is for me just an...

•I too have had problems years ago with the major piano suppliers failing to drill hammers with the proper pitch angle. They always came back straight. That was about 30 years ago, now, because I drill them myself today. But I called both Schaff and American and told them that the samples I had sent...

•Pat Whitlock wrote in 000111 MMD: > Is there any way to straighten reeds without altering their pitch? While I am far from expert in such matters, I have to wonder exactly what you're doing here. According to my reading on the subject, reeds are frequently slightly twisted in order to facilitate th...

•You can get ladder chain and sprockets from Stock Drive Products. They sell these in several pitches, all metric, but equivalent to inches. For instance, a 6.3 mm pitch chain is .248" pitch, which is close enough to the standard 1/4" chain. All you have to do is get the ratios right. You can browse...

•The 1925 Gulbransen was designed to be tuned at A-440. Since the pitch has dropped that much, I would suggest that you "chip" the strings, just as in raising the pitch of a newly strung piano. First, I would inspect the soundboard for problems. If it has any, I would remove the strings and restring...

•Sorry if this is off topic, but does anyone know anybody that can retune (raise the pitch from A=435 to A=440) and even replace or fabricate new Deagan Organ Chime tubes? I live in Southern California, but I'd be interested in knowing if anyone in the USA does that. Thank you, Danielle Squyres ...