Lubricate front bearing/contact points and lower pitch first until you hear a snap, then raise it to the desired pitch smoothly and quickly. Andrew Anderson On Dec 6, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Matthew Todd wrote: > So today I tuned a Baldwin grand that had rusty strings. The rust > wasn't throughout the strings just in splotches along each string. > When I got to the high treble I could not control the movement of > the pitch as I was tuning and that was one of the worst feelings! > When I wanted to turn the hammer a little bit, I heard a loud 'snap' > and the pitch got away from me and went way sharp. I am assuming > this is due the capo bar binding on the strings due to the rust? > Anyway, what is the best approach to this type of situation? I am > almost ashamed to say, but that tuning today was at best, second > rate, only because I was kind of nervous about not having control of > what I was doing and possible string breakage. > > Thank you, > > TODD PIANO WORKS > Matthew Todd, Piano Technician > (979) 248-9578 > http://www.toddpianoworks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081206/7cfb690e/attachment.html>
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