Dummy pins

[Les Conover]

Hi Helen,
    The old Everett model 11, the studio, did not have
the two notes of wound bichords in the low tenor.  At
some point they  made the change, but probably had a
supply of the old plates to use up.  The piano you
tuned could have had one of those plates.
    Les Conover
--- HazenBannister@cs.com wrote:
> Hi list,
>  I tuned an everett studio piano at a local school
> friday,and at the bass - 
> treble break, it has the two double wound strings,as
> most everett studios do, 
> that I have seen.It had them attatched to the
> outside pins in a row of three 
> pins like the steel strings,the middle pins being
> empty.I wonder if someone 
> had changed these from steel strings,if the factory
> did this on purpose,or 
> someone had a bad morning.It threw me for a loop
> till I visually saw, and had 
> it register,what was going on, after a long day.
> 
> Hazen Bannister
> Western Carolinas Chapter
> 
> 


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