Flag-poling: a way of life, or...?

[Jon Rhee]

Tom,

Your right,  Randy does caution against poor practice of manipulating
the pin "playing the slot machine" or randomly yanking downwards on it.
It's possible that I have a more updated version of the course but in the
tuning video George Defebaugh demonstrates proper manipulation of the pin.
I don't have the course in front of me (I'm at my real job-UGH) but when I
get to it I'll get you a page number on that material.  I'd be interested to
compare notes..

Jonathan Rhee
Weymouth, MA


> From: Tvak@AOL.COM
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:53:18 -0500
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Flag-poling: a way of life, or...?
> 
> 
> In a message dated 11/29/01 8:42:17 AM, jrhee@fai-arch.com writes:
> 
> << He speaks at
> length on how to properly manipulate (tweak) the pin in vertical pianos. >>
> 
> Gee, maybe I missed that.   Maybe I'm recalling the video.  Somewhere in
> there I seem to remember the caution to not "treat the tuning pin like a slot
> machine" and never move the pin up or down.  At any rate, I took that advice
> to heart before coming across a tuner tuning a piano at the Chicago Cultural
> Center.  Clearly his movements were vertical!  That prompted me to meet with
> a local RPT and indeed his advice was to adopt some vertical motion after
> completing the turning process.  (ric's recent post described it best.)
> 
> Can you give me a page number on the section describing vertical motion of
> the pin?  I'd love to read it.  (or re-read it)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tom Sivak