What is "Flagpoling?"

[Kenneth W. Burton]

	Guy,

	Was this piano a Type A, B or C?
	I admit that I invented these names but you know the
characteristics. Type A is that piano where the pitch moves as you move
the tuning pin and this helps you to know when to stop. Type B is the one
where the pitch moves as soon as you begin to exert pressure on the pin,
before it moves at all in the pinblock. Type C is that beast--Heintzman,
Mason and Hamlin, etc--where you can actually feel the pin turn in the
pinblock before the pitch moves. All three of these types require a much
different technique.

	Ken Burton "Doctor Piano" Calgary Alberta

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Guy, Karen, and Tor Nichols wrote:

> 
> At 05:35 AM 12/30/97 -0700, you wrote: MAJOR SNIPS
> >that, after the pin has been set, the learning tuner should tap the top of
> >the pin 
> >	I have never experimented with this approach but it sounds like a
> >valuable technique for beginning tuners.
> 	Ken Burton 
> 
> >On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, THEOFONE wrote:
> >> for Ken Burton
> >>                     an easy way to correct this"flagpoling" is to tap
> the top
> >> of the tuning pin
> Theodore Mamel
> 
> Ken, Theodore,
> 	Well, another list idea hits the field, and it was sorta fun! Don't really
> consider myself a beginner, yet the funky old spinet with the weird pins
> yesterday responded well to a light tap as a setting technique! This was
> one of those where the pressure bar and neighbor pins made it tough to
> really get a grip on the bottom row, and certain setting techniques
> interfered with other pins. Frustrating. But,(and time will tell), on a few
> of those puppies I eased my lever off without messing up the neighbor, and
> just gave a very light tap to the end of the pin. Set right down. Cool. Way
> cool.
> 
> Thanks, Way thanks.
> 
> Guy
>