Hmmmm, I don't! If you give each pin a quick back torque bump which produces a slight "tick", isn't that dropping the tension a small amount? Terry Farrell On Sep 12, 2010, at 9:25 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote: > 100% agree. With every word. > > P > > In a message dated 9/12/2010 5:22:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rnossaman at cox.net > writes: > On 9/12/2010 1:49 PM, Roger Gable wrote: > > Steve, > > I have another perspective on the urban legend of string breakage. I > > never let the tension down before raising the pitch on suspected > > strings. > > I don't "let tension down" either. I do, however, give each pin a > quick > back torque bump before moving it. This very often produces a slight > "tick", or "ping" as the string breaks friction, indicating some > bearing > point was indeed frozen to the string. > > > > On another related subject. I've have many encounters with > technicians > > who pitch raise pianos in stages to avoid string breakage. Why? > > To maximize income, naturally, and give the impression they're doing > something technically demanding. Instead of quickly pulling it up > all at > once, which is the rational thing to do, they can milk it for at > least a > couple more tunings by sneaking up on it. It's utter sheep dip. Pull > them up and get on with it. > Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100912/6b996d30/attachment.htm>
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