My Personal PTN

[Alan Barnard]

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My personal PTN (Piano Tuner's Nightmare) is a Samick SG-172.

This little grand is fairly new, resides in a nice church, is played a lot, holds it's tune quite well (such as it is), and shrieks like a wounded calliope.

It is NOT a lively room but I HAVE to wear earplugs on 8vas 5-7 to protect my ears. Yes, voicing down the petrified hammers would help immensely, but they don't have the budget.

The real problem is horrific wild strings. I can seat them and gently tap the pins, etc., and get an immediate improvement on any given string. Then, when I tune the piano, they all come screaming (literally) back to life. Their like evil zombies or something.

If I could take the piano home, I'd pull some bridge pins and epoxy-swab the holes before putting them back in. I'd do a full regulation with string leveling, hammer fitting, etc. But I'm not sure even that would help.

And the darned thing takes much longer to tune than I even want to hang around and listen to it. And doesn't sound all that great even in the best of tune.

Any Samick-experienced people have ideas.  (Attention Listers: For every silly idea, you are required to submit at least one serious idea.)

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri

P.S. The spell checker thinks "Samick" should be "amuck," or "smack," or "smuck"  ... they all sound about right.
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