Ken? IMHO strings do not need "exercising." If anything, the process of bending/unbending wire will lead to failure sooner than a wire that is left idle. If the bass notes are on you may not need to move the pin in the bottom of the block, but I like to nudge the pin flat/sharp without moving it's position to check the stability of the note. This has nothing to do with "exercising" the wire, however. William R. Monroe On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Ken and Sharon Schneider < 1stpianoman at mchsi.com> wrote: > When I first started building my business 20 years ago, I told my customers > that their pianos needed to be tuned every year if possible. That would > keep > the strings exercised and not brittle at the coils or near the bridge pin > or > pressure bar terminal points. It seems that a very high percentage pf my > customers are regulars, and when I tune them, hardly any of the mono or > bi-chord strings need tuning at all. Is it wrong to let these in tune > strings sit there year after year without movement or should I be moving > them? > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090328/68146a4b/attachment.html>
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