New New York Steinway shanks I suppose ? We had a long discussion about these just a bit back, seems they've gone off on a low friction kick. They are supposed to be pertpetual motion machines by design as the story goes. I am with you tho, I do not like very low friction on this point, and always opt for establishing as firm a hold as I can get. This typically yeilds a 4-6 swingtest result. If you want Steinway shanks that are the old style with more usual friction levels, you will have to get somebody in Europe to send you some me thinks. Course you can always order shanks from someone other then Steinway. Cheers RicB Barbara Richmond wrote: > Yet another question, folks, > > I had to repin all the Steinway shanks I recently installed. When > they came, they were the best examples of perpetual motion machines I > had ever seen. Well, golly, almost all of them have loosened up > again!--not to their original state, but much looser than I find > acceptable. (The piano got used a couple of times while work was in > progress.) Dang, I've never had this happen before---am I in the > twilight zone? I couldn't believe my eyes. Would shrinking the cloth > help before I pin....again? Grrrr. > > Also, I was surprised the first time I repinned to find that the > center pins were all .052. That seemed sort of big for original > pinning. I replaced them with .053. Now I feel like I'm going to end > up using telephone poles to get them right. Here I thought I was > almost done with this job and now this...... :-( > > Help! > > Barbara Richmond, RPT > >
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