---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment List Maybe this is no cause for concern, but... I'm doing some work on a Steinway V. It is my own piano, purchased for resale. I just had the piano restrung and the cabinet refinished, by an associate of mine. Got the piano back today. I started out by chipping the piano up to pitch. The last screw on the left on the pressure bar which spans B2 through F#5, is missing. The restringer didn't put it back in because it was rusty and he wanted to replace it with a new one. OK. But as I chipped strings up and I got to the two bichords right under the missing screw, B2 and C3, it seemed as if they weren't moving up in pitch like the other strings. They were about a 5th low and when I started to turn the pin they moved upward, but then they seemed to stop, even though I was still turning the pin. On the one hand, they're wound bichords so they would act differently than their plain steel string neighbors to the right. But I started to get paranoid that perhaps they weren't moving up in pitch because they were forcing the pressure bar upward. I know I'll have to let the tension down in that area to put the screw in anyway, but just as a matter of understanding the situation, is it possible that I could cause damage to the pressure bar by pulling these strings up to pitch with that screw missing? Keep in mind that this is a Steinway: their pressure bars are about the diameter of a hockey stick made out of metal! My gut instinct tells me that I could do just fine without that screw, but either these strings were acting funny, or my imagination got the better of me. Straighten me out. Thanks, Tom Sivak Chicago ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/c7/51/1c/35/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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