M&H model 10 "screw stringer"

Horace Greeley hgreeley@leland.Stanford.EDU
Sun, 19 Oct 1997 18:26:13 -0700


Bill,



At 06:59 AM 10/19/97 -0400, you wrote:
>My teacher, who tuned in the M&H factory early in this century, told me to
>start on the low side and pound the key until the string worked up to the
>correct pitch.

If your teacher included the adjective "vigorously" in front of "pound",
that's
the technique.

Great pianos, great mechanism.

Too expensive to manufacture...

Best.

Horace


Horace Greeley

Systems Analyst/Engineer
Controller's Office
Stanford University

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