Actual piano question: Pin strength and chipboard Yamahas

[Richard Oliver Snelson]

No Stelter, you have given enough people on this group "a piece of your
mind." Don't waste what's left on the factory.
----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: RE: Actual piano question: Pin strength and chipboard Yamahas


> Thanks Ron!
>     Yes, the pins were in too tight. But this, in
> COMBINATION with their seemingly excessive tendency to
> flex, is what made tuning it so very, very obnoxious.
> (IMHO). If the pins were rock-solid-rigid, it wouldn't
> have really been so bad. (IMHO)
>      By the way: I live pretty close to the factory.
> Want me to drive oiver there and give them a piece of
> our collective minds on this? I really wouldn't mind!
>     Regards,
>     Thump
>
> --- Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Not that simple, you need the right balance
> > between, tensile strength and
> > >rigidity.   Now the trick is to get two engineers
> > to agree.  Once the pin
> > >gets in the field, we tech's bitch that there is
> > too much flex.
> > >Oh well, back to the drawing board.
> > >Roger
> >
> > It's not the pins that are the problem anyway.
> > They're just putting them in
> > too bloody tight. We used to have the same problems
> > with new Kimballs for
> > the same reason.
> >
> > Every year for the last five years or so, the Yamaha
> > pinning seems to get
> > tighter. Why are they doing this? The Thomaston
> > products are now very
> > difficult to tune, and I battled a new U3 last week
> > that was virtually
> > untunable for this reason.
> >
> > Ron N
> >
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