This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hear the notes change pitch while the tuning pins twist! Hear the technician shout endless streams of obscenities! (And it's all happening at a church near you!) Hi Everyone -- Yesterday was one of those days. I was called in by a church to try to = tune a piano that was notorious for not staying in tune. What I found = was all of the tuning pins standing so high in the pinblock that the = bottoms of the coils were 10mm from the surface of the plate. You read = right -- 10mm, or 3/10 of an inch. (Yes, I shot pictures of this, but I = still have to get the film developed. No, I didn't swear out loud, but = it wouldn't surprise me if others before me had.) Pin torque was all over the map. Some pins turned smoothly and didn't = pose serious problems in being set. Others were murderously tight. = Only one was bordering on loose. What I'm wondering is, will pounding = these pins to a proper height help bring about some sort of uniformity = of torque or will it make the tight ones tighter still? Concerning the tight pins -- does anyone know of any cute tricks for = slightly easing that tightness? I'm going to work on getting = authorization to do the pin-pounding job, and I'd like to be able to = leave some semblence of consistency of pin torque when I'm done. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/6d/cf/32/c9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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