Well, that was item one on the prep list. Tighten string curves to and past the bridge with a light (note enough to damage the bridge termination) downward push too. Actually massaging the wire with a rag was first than "piano voicing". Think twisting hammer shanks. All good oberservations. Andrew At 09:24 PM 7/27/2006, you wrote: >The problem you are describing may well be that the strings needed >to be seated onto the bridge. Humidity and sometimes the temperature >changes a piano can go through just sitting in a single location >through the year but then you compound that this piano was also moved. > >Sometime you may get lucky and the process of pitch raising may add >enough tension the string may slide down on its own and especially >when the strings ar in very good shape. Not is the case as the >strings get dull/corrosive/ or worse rusted. All the good efforts in >the world can't tune that clean unision when the strings are just a >bit unsettled! > >I had such a frustrating time of things until I just set the strings >at the get-go before doing any pitch raised or tuning pianos that >have been moved and even my regular piano I bump them down at least >yearly for that solid unision. > >Gerald Arbeau >www.arbeaupiano.com
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