Ted: I havenīt got much more to add after what Z!Reinhardt and Ron told you, except that I had a simmilar problem with some pianos that arrived to Venezuela, they were not quality pianos, but your mail remainded me of them. They had the same problem, in the middle part, and I decided trying to tune them higher, leave them to settle and lower the tone afterwards, and doing that I discovered that they had been assembled with very soft hitch pins, they started to bend, when I raised the pitch, (from 440 to 444 ) suddenly one of the strings came loose, and when I looked at the hitch pin this one was completely bent upwards, the others were to follow, so I contacted the store and told the to talk to the manufacturer, They changed the pianos Elian >I'm posting this for a piano technician friend of mine who works on a lot >of new pianos. He has noticed that recently many of the new, high-cost, >pianos have a lot of wild strings in the upper treble. He has been unable >to correct this situation by the usual methods: tapping the string at the >hitch pins and bridge pins; tapping the bridge pins, moving the string at >the V-bar, and rubbing the string along its speaking length. He's talking >upper class pianos that cost $30,000 and up. I won't mention any names but >I'll tell you, he works on some classy pianos. I couldn't offer any >suggestions for him but offered to post this to the pianotech list for some >possible solutions. > >Any suggestions? > >Ted Simmons >Merritt Island, FL > >
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