---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Zen- So what did you do? David Skolnik At 12:34 PM 02/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Hear the notes change pitch while the tuning pins twist! > >Hear the technician shout endless streams of obscenities! > >(And it's all happening at a church near you!) > >Hi Everyone -- > >Yesterday was one of those days. I was called in by a church to try to >tune a piano that was notorious for not staying in tune. What I found was >all of the tuning pins standing so high in the pinblock that the bottoms >of the coils were 10mm from the surface of the plate. You read right -- >10mm, or 3/10 of an inch. (Yes, I shot pictures of this, but I still have >to get the film developed. No, I didn't swear out loud, but it wouldn't >surprise me if others before me had.) > >Pin torque was all over the map. Some pins turned smoothly and didn't >pose serious problems in being set. Others were murderously tight. Only >one was bordering on loose. What I'm wondering is, will pounding these >pins to a proper height help bring about some sort of uniformity of torque >or will it make the tight ones tighter still? > >Concerning the tight pins -- does anyone know of any cute tricks for >slightly easing that tightness? I'm going to work on getting >authorization to do the pin-pounding job, and I'd like to be able to leave >some semblence of consistency of pin torque when I'm done. > >Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. >Z! Reinhardt RPT >Ann Arbor MI ><mailto:diskladame@provide.net>diskladame@provide.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/87/e2/e2/bb/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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