Hard to tune upright

[Farrell]

I've got a new K52 scheduled to tune on Friday. I ordered an McKaffee
(sp?) -type impact tuning hammer for it. I walked away from the last one
presented to me (the piano that is). Wish me luck!

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Hard to tune upright


>
> >I believe you said before that often the feet on the counter bearing bar
> >need to be ground down. Why is that? What problem is that designed to
solve?
> >
> >Terry Farrell
>
> To get some reasonable bearing (and friction) across the V bar. The new
> Steinway vertical's charming combination of extremely tight tuning pins,
> flag poling with no plate bushings, and a very low bearing angle at the V
> bar, is what makes them un-tunable. They just did too many things wrong
all
> at once. Adding counter bearing by lowering the pressure bar gives you
some
> friction to work with, and makes it less uncontrollable. If there were as
> easy a fix for the super tight flag poling pins, I expect these creatures
> could actually be "rendered" tunable by mortals.
>
> Ron N
>
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