Noise in the bass strings that won't tune away.

[David Ilvedson]

leveled the strings...at least pulled up on the string with the harmonic...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Andrew and Rebeca  Anderson" <anrebe at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 7/27/2006 1:14:46 PM
Subject: Noise in the bass strings that won't tune away.


>Seems to me I heard about this problem a while back on the list.  I 
>didn't follow it closely so I don't know if I'm re-hashing the 
>solution.  I've been prepping a high-end grand for a customer of mine 
>and I had the problem of bass strings that just wouldn't go into unison.

>I wasn't worried because the first tuning was just the second part of 
>the prep list.

>Clue: piano was well prepped before shipping from the east coast but 
>was moved into a home with significantly higher relative 
>humidity.  The problem resolved itself by the time I got around to 
>the fine tuning in the end.

>Educated guesses at the fix?


>Andrew Anderson