<div>I read one tuner liked them, thought they were easy. He was left handed. That would jive with the 11 o'c;ock position.</div> <div> </div> <div>Keith Roberts<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ron Nossaman</b> <<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net">rnossaman@cox.net</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>> List,<br>> I'm a recent RPT and caut.   Today I was forced to take a break while<br>> tuning a Steinway Model 45 piano due to the squirminess of the pitch. <br>> Can anyone suggest a plan of attack on these particular (or any Steinway<br>> upright) that makes for an efficient tuning session?<br>> Thanks,<br>> Joe<br>><br>> Joe Wiencek<br><br>You mean other than drugs, or declining to participate <br>altogether? Not that you need to be in the altogether to<br>decline to participate, but in this case it's worth serious<br>consideration if there's a chance it'll help.<br><br>Best I've found is hammer at 11:00, do your best to minimize <br>pin flagpoling, forget automatic formula processes and deal<br>directly in real time in excruciating detail with each and<br>every pin, and mutter as many incantations as possible during<br>the process to bring down an eternal plague of exceptionally <br>toxic fleas on the designer of these wretched things. It may<br>not actually help, but it's as close as I've been able to come<br>to the illusion of meaningful participation in dealing with<br>these overweight family photograph display shelves. <br><br>Ron N<br></blockquote></div><br>