Marshall: If no strings are broken (or have broken and been replaced in the past), probably no strings will break during tuning. You could bring one string of each C or A up to pitch to see. As far as the bichords being dead, I have had great success in livening wound strings by lowering their pitch an octave and banging the key hard a few times before bring them back up to pitch. The strings will drop in pitch some and should be left high in preparation for fine tuning, and then re-tuned in a week or so. On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Marshall Gisondi <pianotune05 at hotmail.com>wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I have a customer whos mother has an old harrington upright, heavy as all > get out. I tuned my customers piano and evaluated the Harrington in the > afternoon. This Harrington's been in the family for ages, and they received > it second hand and "it was old then." according to them. > > Her mother wants her grand son to take lessons but doesn't want to put a > lot of money into repair etc, just enough to get the piano playable/tuned > pretty much until she knows if he's going to stay with the lessons. I hear > this quite often from people. The piano needs a complete overhaul. > Although the bridges seem fine aside from all the dust, and one small crack > in the sound board. My huge concern is the strings, so rusty. My question > is this. Is there something I can do to the strings before tuning them to > prevent breakage. Lubricating them just causes the dust to adhere to the > strings. I've heard of lowering pitch even more to break off any rust. Are > there any other methods I can use so I'm not replacing and splicing a ton of > strings? Pins seem nice and snug too. I'm amazed. this piano is pretty > solid, and if they refurbished it, it would be a good instrument. Bass > strings are dead especially the single strings. I suggested obtaining a > different piano would be their best choice, but they want to see if he's > going to stick with the lessons first. > > So your thoughts would be great. Thanks > Marshall > > > Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician > Marshall's Piano Service > *pianotune05 at hotmail.com* > 215-510-9400 > *www.phillytuner.com * > Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind > www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA > > > > > > > -- Regards, Jeff Deutschle Please address replies to the List. Do not E-mail me privately. Thank You. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100913/0797c090/attachment.htm>
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