There is a tooner in my area who claims to have 35 years of (in)experience. As a surgeon, he is awful, but he does have a good bedside manner! Bruce > >Now, a question: why would anyone drive tight pins down? >I have seen it many times, although rarely whole sections. > >A speculation: inexperienced tuners who blame their poor pin setting on >loose pins. I have sometimes checked bad unisons in such pianos only to >find that in the vicinity of the pounded pins, some of the deviant >pitched strings have gone UP in pitch. How do you tell someone (for for >whom you are just giving an estimate, or conculting) that the pins are >fine, and that his tuner may BE the problem? > >Bill Bailer > >\\\ William Bailer ("Bill") >\\\ Rochester, NY, USA; Phone (voice): 716-473-9556 >\\\ wbailer@concentric.net (same mailbox as wbailer@cris.com) >\\\ Some interests: acoustics, JS Bach, anthropology, & pianos. > > > > _________ ___ / \ ,/ ,/ / \ | Bruce Waller \ |Piano Tuning & Rpr \__ | 406-366-1438 \ ___ |________________________\ ,/ ,/ |L|L|L| |L|L| |L|L|L| |L| |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| _______ )( )(
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