<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>Hi, Andrew,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Restring the top sections, OR</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>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 :)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>BIll Shull</DIV> <DIV>La Sierra University, RIverside, CA</DIV> <DIV>(where there are two SD-10s)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/11/2007 7:45:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, andrew@andersonmusic.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>I've got some tuning coming up for piano days here in Laredo.  They <BR>want to do some duos and use the two resident concert grands <BR>together.  Bit of a mis-match if you ask me...  I'll encourage <BR>bringing another D over from another local venue but...I'll probably <BR>be stuck with tuning the Baldwin to the D.<BR><BR>Here's the rub.  The Baldwin has those proprietary front duplex <BR>thingamajigs and the shrieking and buzzing are just plain shrill and <BR>nasty.  They are all over the place angle-wise so I haven't figured <BR>out a rhyme or reason for their positions.  Does anyone know how to <BR>tame these or shall I just stuff that all full of felt for the <BR>concert at hand?  Wondered about trickling CA glue in around the <BR>thingamajigs to see if that would help but it would be a nuisance to <BR>clean up if I had to.  For those of you who wonder, the Baldwin was <BR>replaced by the D and banished to the choir room where it plays <BR>second fiddle to a Boston upright.  Has great stability and good tone <BR>for the most part except the treble.<BR><BR>Open to ideas, hopefully expertise.<BR><BR>Andrew Anderson, Artisan Piano</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>