[CAUT] Steinway Upright tuning

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi If you are using a ball hammer like mine, you slightly bring pressure
downward as you turn the pin from the 12 to 1 position. pull above pitch and
feel the click, and then bump back.
This allows you to move the pin while hardly raising the pitch.
Works for me may not for you. I would find the traditional hammer very hard
to use.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Richmond" <piano57 at insightbb.com>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway Upright tuning


> Joe,
>
> I heard a Steinway tech say that instead of bringing the string up a bit
> over pitch and nudging it back down, you should just bring it up and stop.
A
> good friend of mine owns one of these--I insisted on a DC system.
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> near Peoria, Illinois
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Wiencek" <jwpiano at earthlink.net>
> To: <caut at ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 10:49 PM
> Subject: [CAUT] Steinway Upright tuning
>
>
> > List,
> > I'm a recent RPT and caut.   Today I was forced to take a break while
> > tuning a Steinway Model 45 piano due to the squirminess of the pitch.
Can
> > anyone suggest a plan of attack on these particular (or any Steinway
> > upright) that makes for an efficient tuning session?
> > Thanks,
> > Joe
> >
> > Joe Wiencek
> > jwpiano at earthlink.net
> >
> > tel: 551 358 4006