Beale All-Iron Tuning

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Jerry,
Never seen one but from your description, would recommend that you lower
the pitch before raising in tuning each pin. As one would do with rusty
pins or wire. Just to break loose the contact of those set screws.
Joe Goss

You know you are on the level if your bubble is in the middle.

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> From: Jerry Lambuth <jerrylmb@earthlink.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Beale All-Iron Tuning
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 9:09 PM
> 
> Here's one for you .......
> Got a Beale (Australia, ca 1929) with an ALL-Iron tuning system. The pins
> are tapered and ste in the plate from the back, held in place by set
> screws. The owners say you have to loosen the set screw (in the back) to
> tune (in the front). The pins are #1 and very soft. I already bent one as
> my only  #1 head is 2.5 in long. 
> 
> Are these things tuned with a T-handle? Is it a 2-man job (one on each
side)?
> 
> Any info will be sincerely appreciated. Its gotta be playable by Aug 1
for
> a wedding.
> 
>