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

Andrew and Rebeca Anderson anrebe at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 27 18:56:40 MDT 2006


That was part of the prep but it didn't finish it off. (humidity)

At 06:44 PM 7/27/2006, you wrote:
>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




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