Sangler & Sohne bass pins

[Michiel van Loon]

Hi Jay,
The Sängler & Söhne is/was made in the Ukraine by a Dutch Ukranian
joint-venture.
the Dutch side is a firm formerly called MBI , now it has the name Borg
Trading.
The pianos are made in the Ukraine and the some parts come from Germany.
I'm lucky that I have only ONE customer with such a thing. And this one
completely fits your discription.
And I DON"T raise the pitch to 440, because I don't want to break my arm.
And don't give the piano any water because leaves and branches will grow on
the very fresh wood.

Michiel van Loon
Meppel
The Netherlands

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Jay Mercier <jaymercier@hotmail.com>
Aan: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Datum: vrijdag 18 december 1998 17:58
Onderwerp: Sangler & Sohne bass pins


>I recently serviced a German-made Sangler & Sohne console in which I
>found to be very frustrating.
>
>It was 5 years old and had been serviced regularly but the past tuners
>(3 of them) had never tuned it to A=440.  The client complained about
>her past tunings and decided to call a fourth tuner - me!
>
>It was about a half step low in pitch.  The pins were very tight.  I
>thought "I wonder if this piano is supposed to be tuned a half step low
>or what?  Made in Europe with a pea-green plate, who knows."  The fact
>that the bass strings looked smaller than the usual console bass strings
>also led me to believe the pitch could possibly be lower.  But, I took a
>chance and raised the pitch to A=440.
>
>POP!  There goes one bass string.  Should I continue?  I did so after
>lubricating the contact points on the V-bar. No other strings broke.
>
>What was disturbing was that the bass windings were almost touching the
>V-bar.  The bass pins were overlapping the next bass string to the right
>of it and on some of the pins I couldn't even fit my tuning lever on it
>due to the underlying string next to it.  Some of the pins were only
>slightly bent.
>
>It was not a good day.
>
>Anyone have a comment and/or has serviced these pianos and found these
>type of problems?
>
>Jay Mercier
>Piano Technician / Music Educator
>Glenwood, MN
>jaymercier@hotmail.com
>http://www.minnewaska.com/spectrum.html
>
>
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