[CAUT] M&H "A" stability

[Jon Page]

On any piano with high counter bearing (c/b) angles you can't finesse 
the string/pin.

The high friction does not lend to fine adjustments. The best way to tune these
is to pull the string to pitch and leave it. This leaves the tension 
between c/b and
pin higher than the speaking length for a more stable  tuning.

If you lower the tension, because of the friction involved, the pin 
to c/b tension
is extremely low and causes an unstable tuning.  On hard blows the 
lower tension
will creep through but a higher front tension will hold the pitch on 
a hard blow.

There can be no pin setting style of the ever diminishing series of 
raising and lowering
tension to feel the torque in the pin and set the string rendering 
with the final movement
with a nudge up to maintain higher tension between pin and c/b. Pull 
it up and move on.
Set it and Forget it, you're cooked.
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Regards,

Jon Page