<html> <body> Bill, Thanks.  I think I will try to sell this. Andrew At 11:42 PM 1/11/2007, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi, Andrew,   Restring the top sections, OR   in a pinch drop the tension in the top two sections and run the string around the hitchpin some (lower a half turn on one pin, increase on the other) to re-locate the hardened wire at the front terminations.  Problem with this idea is that it will clean things up quite a bit, when you really should use the disastrous buzzing etc to sell a restringing....but you do what you gotta do....Hopefully the pins aren't too tight :)   BIll Shull La Sierra University, RIverside, CA (where there are two SD-10s)   In a message dated 1/11/2007 7:45:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, andrew@andersonmusic.com writes: <dl> <dd>I've got some tuning coming up for piano days here in Laredo.  They <dd>want to do some duos and use the two resident concert grands <dd>together.  Bit of a mis-match if you ask me...  I'll encourage <dd>bringing another D over from another local venue but...I'll probably <dd>be stuck with tuning the Baldwin to the D. <dd>Here's the rub.  The Baldwin has those proprietary front duplex <dd>thingamajigs and the shrieking and buzzing are just plain shrill and <dd>nasty.  They are all over the place angle-wise so I haven't figured <dd>out a rhyme or reason for their positions.  Does anyone know how to <dd>tame these or shall I just stuff that all full of felt for the <dd>concert at hand?  Wondered about trickling CA glue in around the <dd>thingamajigs to see if that would help but it would be a nuisance to <dd>clean up if I had to.  For those of you who wonder, the Baldwin was <dd>replaced by the D and banished to the choir room where it plays <dd>second fiddle to a Boston upright.  Has great stability and good tone <dd>for the most part except the treble. <dd>Open to ideas, hopefully expertise. <dd>Andrew Anderson, Artisan Piano </dl></blockquote></body> </html>