Tuning Steinway Verticals

[Don Mannino]

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Jim has some good advice there - calling Eric is a good plan - great guy
who knows his stuff.
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I used to tune a few of these, and for me the answer was to use the
springing of the pin to my advantage.  The pins are long and very
springy (with no plate bushings to help support them), and the coils are
often very high off the plate as well.  So the basic idea is to rotate
each pin so that the pitch is fairly sharp, then with the tuning lever
straight up in the air pull it towards you in small jerking motions to
settle the pin and the string down to pitch without turning the pin at
all.  Using good solid test blows.  Even with high V-bar friction this
can allow small movements and good fine tuning while leaving the pin and
upper part of the string "loaded" so that the pitch will not drop in
hard playing.   If the pitch of the string wants to pop sharp on a test
blow, then don't turn the pin quite so far sharp before springing the
pin for final tuning.  If it still wants to pop flat on a test blow, try
starting with it sharper.
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This worked well for me on the Steinway 1098s that I used to service
regularly.  See if it works for you.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Busby [mailto:jim_busby@byu.edu]=20
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:45 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: RE: Tuning Steinway Verticals

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I've got 12 brand new 1098s and they do tune up better than before the
modification made three years ago. Call Eric Schandall and he will give
you some "tricks" to tuning them. (Really. And no, that doesn't include
dropping them off a cliff) they are vastly improved over the ones we all
know and hate to tune.
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Jim Busby BYU
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