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Title: Piano Tuning
A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs

Author: J. Cree Fischer

Release Date: January 22, 2006 [EBook #17571]

Language: English

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J. CREE FISCHER

PIANO TUNING

A SIMPLE AND ACCURATE METHOD
FOR AMATEURS

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
NEW YORK

Copyright (c) 1907 by Theo. Presser.

All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright
Conventions.

Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill
Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10
Orange Street, London WC 2.

This Dover edition, first published in 1975, is a republication of the
work originally published in Philadelphia in 1907. The following
sections have been omitted from the present edition because they were
out-of-date: Practical Application of Piano Tuning as a Profession,
Business Hints, Ideas in Advertising, and Charges for Services. This
edition is reprinted by special arrangement with Theodore Presser
Company, Presser Place, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, publisher of the
original edition.

_International Standard Book Number: 0-486-23267-0_

_Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-14759_

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PREFACE.

For some years past a lack of competent men in the profession of Piano
Tuning has been generally acknowledged. This may be accounted for as
follows: The immense popularity of the piano and the assiduous efforts
of factories and salesmen have led to the result that nearly every
well-to-do household is furnished with an instrument. To supply this
demand the annual production and sale for the year 1906 is estimated
at three hundred thousand pianos in the United States. These pianos
must be tuned many times in the factory before they are shipped to th