> No sage advice on how to deal with difficult pianos????????????????????? Hi Les, Deal with it or pass? I have maybe a half dozen pianos in my steady clientèle that have abusively tight pins, where I torque the pitch way past where I want it before the bottom of the pins move in the block. It's worst at the beginning, when I'm trying to set a temperament. It usually costs me an extra ten minutes going back and forth over the temperament repeatedly until I'm satisfied with it. By the time I've tuned the middle strings (strip muter am I) in the center section, I've adapted to the feel of the pins and the rest of the tuning goes reasonably well unless there are string rendering problems as well. It's a pain in the southern coast, and a real physical workout, but it shouldn't take a whole lot more time than an easier tuning does just from tight pins. Rendering problems and false beats are something else. No dodge, no work around, no magic hammer. I just crunch the things as best I can with my lone universal hammer like anything else. Ron N
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