Harpsichords I service have one of two kinds of tuning pins. They are either "zither" pins (a mini version of a piano tuning pins, with threads that go into the wrestplank and a hole to secure the wire) or the kind of pin that Joe Garrett recently described, but without threads (gives new meaning to the apparent misnomer "tuning hammer"). Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Anderson <andrew@andersonmusic.com> To: College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 11:36:45 -0600 Subject: [CAUT] Harpsichord tuning tips Do harpsichords have regular tuning pins? Do they behave quite differently from pianos? I guess the mechanism is different so the "test-blow" is out. Would rubbing/stretching the strings with a rag be equivalent? Any and all tips welcome. ;-) Andrew Anderson _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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