---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Just one comment on your 'technique'. Do NOT lower the tension by that much (45 degree turn) ! Lower the tension just until you hear the friction 'pop' which will only be a few beats, if that. I use a slow pull technique and do not hit the key hard and I do not have stability problems. It's a technique of ever decreasing overpull/lowering operations with the final tweak on the up-pull to leave the string segment between the counter bearing bar and tuning pin with a higher tension than the speaking length. Regards, Jon page At 07:15 PM 9/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I don't have a lot of S&S experience (in the Ozarks? Gimme a break!) but I >do tune a few. > >Tuned an "L" infantile horizontal piano today and got thinking while >wrestling with it. Pinblock quite tight (somewhat jumpy pins), string >movement resistance quite high, and the collarless pins VERY sensitive to >pressure in any direction--up pitch, down pitch, flagpoling, whatever. > >I find many notes very hard to pull in for sweet unisons. I was personally >taught by Randy Potter how to tune stable strings & pins but found that >moving the pin in teeny notches is very hard--too high, too low, too high ... > >If I got it just a hair over pitch and tried to settle everything with >back pressure on the hammer, it dropped way too much. Finally, with time >running out and getting a little desperate, I started dropping pitch >(about a 45 degree turn of the hammer) and tuning "from the bottom" with a >smooth steady pull while wanging the string pretty hard. Most of the time >I could stop right on pitch --even on strings I had spent WAY too long >trying to tune the "normal" way. > >But I worry about how stable they are as I could not "set" the pin in the >usual way. > >Is this pretty typical Steinway? > >What about stability in these circumstances? > >What hammer techniques do y'all use on the beasts? > >NOTE: While tuning, I was rehearsing a pretty negative inner dialog about >Steinway and all of their "genuine Steinway parts;" thinking how expensive >they are and how much they look like every other piano, etc. BUT after I >tuned it, I played it. Even for a small piano, what a beautiful, sweet >sound. Oh, the subtleties ... Regards, Jon Page, piano technician Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. mailto:jonpage@attbi.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0c/e2/64/39/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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