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melodic-ally or one after the other—.
All intervals are tuned that way.
At any rate do the best you can.
FIRST AID IN PIANO REPAIRS
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Adjustable Prices
Issued by OPA for Pig Iron
By ALEXANDER HART
Instructor in Piano Tuning,
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
Registered Member of the National Association of Piano
Tuners
EDITOR'S NOTE: Piano Tuners who would like to furthei
their training are at liberty to consult Mr. Hart, c/o
Music TRADE REVIEW, 1270 Sixth Ave.. New York 20. N.
Information About Pianos
When we come to reasoning out a
procedure relative to twelve "keys" to
be harmonized, i.e., twelve common
chords in the octave, there is in reality
only eight to ve seriously taken into
account.
Every piano tuner is aware of the
utter neglect many piano owners are
guilty of towards their instruments.
When confronted with a problem of
this sort, and you feel it your duty to
raise the pitch nearly—a half tone,
don't temper the intervals until you
have tuned the piano all the way
through from bass to treble.
Tune every interval absolutely per-
fect.
This procedure will help you immeas-
urably when returning to retune again
after the first strain of the raising
pitch.
It is advisable, however, not to pull
the strings up all at once, rather half
the amount, i.e.
Let the strings rest about a months—
and pull them up again to the required
pitch.
You will find tuning the intervals
as perfect as you can—will save a lot
of time. Too much maneuvering with
the tuning pins, is not too good for
them.
Moving in conformity with listening
and setting the pin, is a great help,—
a time saver as well.
Furthermore, many of the intervals,
often drop a vibration or two, whereas
the opposite would result, besides, the
upper treble will remain on the sharp
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW, JUNE, 1946
(Continued from May)
side, instead of flat.
Try this sometime.
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Keep the continuous felt wedge in
place—do not disturb it, because you
must tune it again, especially when the
strings have not been moved perchance
for years.
Therefore extreme caution, should be
the watchword so that when you man-
ipulate the tuning pins through the
delicate handling or dexterity with a
tuning hammer, (or wrench whatever
the name is) and sometimes called
tuning technique there is not so much
chance of breaking a string.
No tuner wants to have them break,
especially in the middle register.
As no two piano tuners tune alike
(and there is always a slight differ-
ence between them), we propose, there-
fore to take another route that can
always be changed, and in fact begin-
ners can use their own judgment.
As I have said many times the "ear"
decides how chords should sound, and
it's the tuners ear that hears them,
and not all tuners hear alike.
We hope to be of some assistance to
the willing and ready to follow a new
set of charts that is in preparation,
and will be presented in the Music
Trade Review July issue.
It is assumed that a fair knowledge
of intervals and chords are available
for tuning practice, for it is of no use
starting out without this foundation.
You will have lots of time to study
the intervals before July.
You can help yourself greatly, that is
by going to the piano and listen to the
fifth-—and octaves, then change to the
fourths — i.e., first a fifth, then a
fourth. Do this many times.
Get these tones memorized by ear—
hum them during the day—and when
you can leave the piano and sing these
intervals alone you are getting some-
where.
Then—listen for thirds.
Strike one and three tones, if you
are sounding the C tone, that is C and
E—leave the D out.
Strike the tones evenly, and in
harmony — that is together, and not
The Office of Price Administration
applied the principle of adjustable
pricing to pig iron on May 28th, au-
thorizing producers to charge on all
salts made after any ceiling price in-
crease granted after that date.
The agency explained that adjustable
pricing is necessary at this time "to
promote production and distribution"
of pig iron until the agency acts upon
a request for an increase in maximum
prices. It was pointed out that pro-
ducers of coal, coke and iron ore were
recently authorized to sell on an adjust-
able basis, which will make any in-
creases in ceiling prices retroactive.
"Since the costs of these products
make up most of the costs of pig iron
production," stated the OPA, "it is
necessary to allow a similar pricing
basis for operators of blast furnaces."
Ceiling prices for pig iron were in-
creased 75 cents a gross ton on March
15 to enable the industry to earn its
base period revenue. The rise allowed
for some anticipated increases in the
cost of materials.
"However, it appears now that pro-
ducers of pig iron would be placed un-
der considerable hardship by substan-
tial retroactive increases in the costs
of their raw materials," said OPA.
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piano industry for many years and
Mr. Butz his associate is a war vet-
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past few weeks endeavoring to secure
piano supplies in order to be able to
supply dealers and tuners on the Pa-
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