I also forgot to mention that after I the initial "snap" and me bringing the note back up to pitch, I lowered the pitch a second time on some of the same notes, and it did exactly the same thing (snap, pitch drop) Matthew On Sun Sep 5th, 2010 11:29 AM EDT Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote: >Sounds to me like the string rusted and stuck to the agraffe. Once it broke loose it just dropped. > >Al - >High Point, NC > >-------------------------------------------------- >From: <toddpianoworks at att.net> >Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:12 AM >To: <pianotech at ptg.org> >Subject: [pianotech] (no subject) > >> I went to tune a Knabe grand yesterday. On this piano, I decided to drop pitch a little before bringing up to pitch. When I lowered tension on the monochords, I heard a loud snap followed by the pitch dropping drastically. >> >> I have encountered an upright that did this and I was curious as to the reason why. >> >> Thanks! >> Matthew >> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry >> >>
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