Paul writes:
>>Avery and Mario, my first thought was that Schimmel should replace the piano... I'll revisit that possibility with Schimmel. Short of that, no, I don't feel that I am going to do factory quality work. I've gotten "pretty good" on replacing single strings but my beckets point all over the place. I don't want to practice uniform pin height and uniform becket direction (times 200+) on a nearly new piano. <<
I would make the case for CA. Schimmel may not dig the departure from precedent, but I have never seen CA fail to restore torque, and now, after 6-7 years, we have evidence that the improvement is permanent. Beyond that, if CA didn't help, you can still restring with one size over and have a very decent tuning piano. I have had to do that on a job where the CA was ok for torque, until the string broke, (I think it must have suffered serious over cranking by techs that were suddenly surprised to pull their hammer back on a pin with 20 lbs of torque). Rather than putting the additional rotation on the pin to install a new string, I just went up one size and it was fine, (about 110 lbs, if I remember). If I was a district service rep, I would be glad to give this a shot vs. taking a piano back in.
Regards,
Ed Foote RPT
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