mystery center pinning

[Barbara Richmond]

Yes, New New York Steinway.  What bothers me most is that they've loosened 
up again.  I want to be the one in control of the friction.  Are they going 
to just get looser and looser?  Argh.

Kent Webb wrote a response on the CAUT list.  I cc'd him with my concerns. 
Hope I hear from him soon.

Barbara Richmond



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: mystery center pinning


> New New York Steinway shanks I suppose ?  We had a long discussion about 
> these just a bit back, seems they've gone off on a low friction kick. They 
> are supposed to be pertpetual motion machines by design as the story goes. 
> I am with you tho, I do not like very low friction on this point, and 
> always opt for establishing as firm a hold as I can get. This typically 
> yeilds a 4-6 swingtest result.
>
> If you want  Steinway shanks that are the old style with more usual 
> friction levels, you will have to get somebody in Europe to send you some 
> me thinks. Course you can always order shanks from someone other then 
> Steinway.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
> Barbara Richmond wrote:
>
>> Yet another question, folks,
>>  I had to repin all the Steinway shanks I recently installed.  When they 
>> came, they were the best examples of perpetual motion machines I had ever 
>> seen.  Well, golly, almost all of them have loosened up again!--not to 
>> their original state, but much looser than I find acceptable. (The piano 
>> got used a couple of times while work was in progress.)   Dang, I've 
>> never had this happen before---am I in the twilight zone?  I couldn't 
>> believe my eyes.  Would shrinking the cloth help before I pin....again? 
>> Grrrr.
>>  Also, I was surprised the first time I repinned to find that the center 
>> pins were all .052.  That seemed sort of big for original pinning.  I 
>> replaced them with .053.  Now I feel like I'm going to end up using 
>> telephone poles to get them right.  Here I thought I was almost done with 
>> this job and now this......  :-(
>>  Help!
>>  Barbara Richmond, RPT
>>
>
>
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