On Aug 3, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: > When do you all decide when to restring a grand? I have now in the > shop a S&S M from the 60's from one of our classrooms. At that age, I would restring the whole piano to make it more tunable (preferably a little earlier). It's a question of rendering strings, and I think the main factor is the string dragging on the felt (between agraffes and pins, and between duplexes and pins). Even without noticeable rust, I find the strings are draggy, and it is really hard to get solid tuning. My big emphasis when restringing is on capo shape and dealing with that drag issue - done by brushing McLube on the surface of the felt (Or rubbing in some powdered teflon). I just did a couple Yamaha G-2s from the 70s this summer, and the improvement is like night and day. I still have three or four Steinways from the 60s that haven't seen a restring, and they are my un-favorite pianos to tune. Too much work to get the unisons honed in and solid, and some of them invariably turn out not to be solid. I just can't move a string half a cent and have it stay with any certainty. That's the difference. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100803/568fae8e/attachment.htm>
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