Howard, I have also had the same problem at a dealership where I do some work. Back in June 2006, I asked Mark Wisner the same question, plus about the tuning pins & wire. Here is his response: >The tuning pins are cut thread pins. The wire is Roslau tinned wire. Neither of these are >the problem. The problem is that the vendor that supplies the agraffes screwed up the >bevel of the agraffe wire hole. The problem has since been corrected. Fortunately, once >the pianos are tuned several times and the wires "breaks" the holes edge, the problem >goes away. >I know of a tech down here in Southern California that is putting a dab of lube where the >string enters the agraffe, kinda dangerous, in my book. If you have to eliminate the >problem immediately you can use a string hook and brass rod to mate the string to the >agraffe. > >Mark It does seem to have gotten better, although I haven't tuned a grand in a while now. Avery Todd, RPT On 8/18/07, pianotuna55 at comcast.net <pianotuna55 at comcast.net> wrote: > > Hello list: > I do the service work for the local Pearl River dealer here in town. For > their size and price, they get a surprisingly decent sound. There is a > troublesome problem in tuning these brand new pianos: the plain wire strings > "hang" in the agraffes. The "ping" is not in every string but enough to > make the tuning difficult. You know what I mean. I've dropped the tension > before tightening and this helps some but the problem still exists. I > haven't contacted Pearl about this yet. > > Now, am I the only one that is having this problem? > Howard Jackson > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070819/e9f562c5/attachment.html
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