Question about tuning pins and strings

[Farrell]

Small piano designs that try to pack a lot of stuff into a small package
will have this. I'm sure that even with the cramped quarters, better
alignment/spacing could have avoided the occurrance. I have not noticed any
significant trouble tuning because of that. Just a good indication that you
are working on a small, cheap piano.

BTW, how's the Potter course going?  :-)

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "jstuart1" <jstuart1@pdq.net>
To: "pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:27 AM
Subject: Question about tuning pins and strings


> While tuning a couple of the pianos I have, I noticed that some of the
> strings in the trebble unisons touch thier neighbors in the vicinity of
> the tuning pins. After further investigation, this seems to be the case
> on all 6 of the pianos I have. I am curious as to why. It appears that
> the tuning pins were set to close together in this area. How does this
> affect sound and tuning of the pianos? Are most/ all pianos this way?
> Even the baby grand I have is like this.
>
> Thanks
> Judy
>