[CAUT] Steinway Verticals

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Ed,
Question, are the bridge pins filed? Like with a belt sander?
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Sutton" <ed440@mindspring.com>
To: "Boaz Kirschenbaum <artisanpiano@gmail.com>, College and
UniversityTechnicians" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 7:05 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Steinway Verticals


> Dear Boaz-
>
> Perhaps you would share some of your painfully learned Steinway vertical
> knowledge?
>
> How do they manage to get so many false beats in such a little space?
>
> Last week I tuned the most sadistic piano I know, a 4 year old 45
vertical.
> I'm the sixth technician to take it on, and the only one masochistic
enough
> to come back.
>
> At least 2/3s of the treble strings are false beaters.  Not 2/3s of the
> unisons, 2/3s of the strings.  Tapping at the bridge does not help.  What
> do they do to make these strings do this?
>
> I am considering proposing to restring the top 2 sections, but hesitate
> because I'm not sure it will make any difference.
>
> Is there something odd in the way they string these pianos, somehow
> twisting the strings?
>
> The bass strings are also starting to beat.
>
> Any thoughts you have would be most appreciated.  Ditto evereybody else.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Ed Sutton
>
>
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