Stringing Scales/least of problems

bwaller@sunrise.alpinet.net bwaller@sunrise.alpinet.net
Sun, 25 Aug 1996 09:07:16 -0600


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.
>
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