This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I used to set my SAT four cents sharp to prevent pitch drop in a = relatively in tune piano, now that I've converted to the Verituner, I = haven't read how to do that yet in the manual. Any help out there? = It's not really a pitch raise as in the "course" tuning program. Phil ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Mark Wisner=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 7:54 AM Subject: Re: Rusty Stretchy Strings If you haven't already done so, try and sell the customer a wool = string cover for the inside of the piano. They are kinda pricey but = very effective at keeping rust off the strings. There may be other = sources, but LaRoy and Judi Edwards sell very good ones and can be = reached at 800 924 2114. =20 -----Original Message----- From: Farrell=20 Sent: Oct 21, 2003 8:34 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Rusty Stretchy Strings Mr. A440-or-die posting here: I serviced a 15-or-so year old Yamaha GH1 this evening. Lady lives = right on a salt water canal and leaves all windows and doors open 24/7 = for about ten months out of the year here in west-central Florida. Piano was a little rusty (never seen a piano more rusty that this = one!). Pitch was 25 to 50 cents flat and three strings were broke. Raised = pitch to A441. Popped a half-dozen strings. After replacing strings the = piano was up to 20 cents flat in some areas. Raised pitch again to A441. = Popped a couple more strings. After replacing those, several areas of = scale were five to ten cents flat. Started bringing those areas up, = popped a couple more strings and then had to tell the owner that no way = was this piano going up to standard pitch by me (sure glad the two bass = strings that shot across the room missed that glass-fronted china = cabinet).=20 This piano has set a new rusty-string standard for me. I'll be going = back there to fine (?) tune the piano in a week or two - at whatever = pitch the piano settles at (my expectation is that it will be somewhere = below A440). But my question is could these strings be so weak that they = stretch much more than usual - kind of like a stretch right before it = breaks? It seems that when you bring a string up to standard pitch, it = stretches and settles at a lower pitch. Any other piano I have ever = pitch-raised pretty well stays where I put it - but not this one. I've = never seen anything like it. When removing a few of the old rusty broken strings, I would grab the = string with a pair of pliers to yank it out - and the sting broke again = - I've never before broke a piece of piano wire by just tugging on it! I told lady it is time to restring. Maybe that PureSound stainless = steel wire would be of benefit in this piano. The owner did tell my that = she is not changing her lifestyle for her piano, and that she is going = to keep that piano until she dies (I'd say she was 40s-ish and = pleasingly healthy, so that may be a while!). Terry Farrell Mark Wisner ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/05/2e/4b/99/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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