Just got our Bösendorfer Imperial into the studio after having it stored in a place where it was used (without our permission) for concerts, recordings and weddings. And the last tuner working on it decided to raise the pitch to 444Hz. Well, partially, he left the upper 1.5 octaves at 443, thankfully.
The piano is 50 years old now, has heavily been used as an instrument in a recording studio and concert hall and the pin block is definitely not new anymore.
I really wonder what makes people think they could simply do with someone else's property whatever they want as long as they get away with it. Anyway, did a pitch lowering yesterday, corrected two or three unisons today and then recorded a Brahms Intermezzo to cool me down.
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