---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Dale I agree with you about the feel of a well executed Steinway style configuration, however, from your earlier post, in which you described converting a Yamaha to a Steinway style, I'm not clear whether you are explicitly stating that you feel the bushing system to be inherently flawed. Can you clarify? At 12:30 PM 05/12/2001 -0700, you wrote: > David and list > > all your questions are good ones and since I started the ditch the > bushings campaign allow me to interject one potent argument and or bias. > Any tuner that has ever tuned a good original 20's stwy or other well > fit piano has found that they tune remarkably well and flaggpoling is > essentially a none issue. The pins render as better or at least as > easily as any bushing fit block and the pins are not leaning against the > plate(even after all these years) because of a good tight plate > flange/block fit and this is a piano system that has endured for how many > years? > It seems to me that any piano that has a a good block to plate flange > fit ( and 40 screws)should be able to duplicate the stable and tunable > Steinway style system. > As others have said one of the advantages to bushing is a dust/liquid > barrier. I like Willis Snyder's idea of some form of wood colored plastic > insert for those of us who might need that for school church or bar > applications. > I addressed the issue of directional force in my first post on the > subject. > > Dale Erwin > Hi Dave (David Love) > > Right you are ,it is highly beneficial for the tuning pin hole to lineup >with the bushing but also that the bushing be under some kind of compression >as is the tuning pin in the block. Why? glad you all asked, because the >major amount of force caused by the string tension is translated from the >pin thru bushing and bears against the flange thereby negating the need for >much if any true pinblock to plate flange contact. Just restring any >oriental piano. I got my first lesson on this replacing strings and pinblock >on a few 1970's Yamahas. Maybe there were two places that touched the >flange on the whole block. > My solution was to fully fit the block with a good plate fange contact >and eliminate the bushing. The piano tunes like a dream(Bolduc block)yeah >baby. Enough said? > > Dale Erwin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b2/e9/22/70/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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