pounding

[Dick Beaton]

Jim....
I know the feeling.
We have two Baldwin D (9 footers) in Helena.  They both have those funny
curved things that the strings go over before going under the bar in the
high treble.  Drives me nuts to turn a pin and not hear the pitch change!  I
put some protec on sparingly and it helped a lot. Other than that they are
fine pianos and easy to tune.
Dick RPT MT
-----Original Message-----
From: JIMRPT@AOL.COM <JIMRPT@AOL.COM>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: pounding


>
>In a message dated 11/02/1999 2:13:06 AM, Carmen wrote:
>
><<"Some of our colleagues have stated that the "pounding" can be minimized
>with a refined hammer technique.
>   Question:  Can the pounding ALSO be minimized with a safe bearing
>lubricant?">>
>
>Carmen;
>  I'm one of the guilty parties.  My last tuning yesterday was a YC of
about
>15 years old.  This instrument has always been a problem with rendering but
>yesterday it was particularly bad and without exagerating "too" much some
of
>the pins/strings took a 1/8th turn before they decided to move. (I suppose
it
>was the dragon making me support my words:)
>  I am going back later this week with my ProTec and apply it to all the
>bearing points and retune, as I am not really very pleased with the tuning
of
> the danged thingee as is. :-(
>Jim Bryant (FL)
>
>