[pianotech] GH1 - pitch lock?

[Carl]

Would be nice see a couple of pics of this.

CT 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Formsma 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 9:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] GH1 - pitch lock?


  The first thing that comes to my mind is will another technician realize the Pitchlocks are there? It's fine as long as you're the only one tuning it, but someone else might not notice them at first.


  What about putting them close to the agraffe so they're more visible?


  I've had good results with using Pitchlocks on some Steinways with lots of front duplex noises. (On Steinway D's the C6-E6 area can be pretty awful.) And have used them on bass bichords a time or two.


  -- 

  John Formsma, RPT

  Blue Mountain, MS



  On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Ron Koval <drwoodwind at hotmail.com> wrote:


    I finally have come face-to-face with what has been written about for years..
    An "icky" Yamaha GH1, with the untunable group of plain wire notes in
    the lower tenor section.  I know I've tuned a couple of GH1's in the past,
    but none were this terrible at the break.  B is the lowest plain wire, and from
    there up to about Eb, they couldn't ever sound decent with the octave above.

    I realize that there are better, more permanent, costly options, but I wanted to give
    this a try for a church where I rehearse with a men's chorus...

    I pulled out my little canister of pitch lock clips and went to work on the 
    bridge side of the strings - closer to the bridge has a minimal effect, while
    further into the speaking length has a more dramatic effect.  The unison can
    be "tuned" by moving the clips - the further from the bridge, the flatter the 
    pitch.

    It is really, "less bad" than before.  The downside is that the only way to 
    tune those strings now is with all three sounding - a nightmare! That, or maybe
    sliding the pitch locks up and down.  I'll be experimenting as the weather changes...

    Ron Koval                                         






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