Whammy bar/Baldwin vs. the tuner

[jolly roger]

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Hi Ken,
             Try lifting all the strings, on both sides of the capo and 
agraffes, I have found this helps in some cases.
Regards roger


At 10:48 PM 9/12/02 -0400, you wrote:
>List
>    Today I tuned a Baldwin L of very recent vintage for the 5th time since
>Sept of 2000. I hate this piano. Let me back off a little bit, I dislike
>tuning this piano immensely. At first I thought it was the tight pins, which
>there are, but soon came to realize it is the no-plate-bushing flagpoling
>combined with almost no friction/low deflection angle from both the capo and
>aggraffe sections. I can use my tuning lever to do a whammy bar effect all
>through the tenor and treble. I'm refering to that bar on some electric
>guitars that allows you to drastically alter the pitch or, if you do it
>quickly,  get a vibratto effect.  I naturally use a jerk motion when I tune,
>and I kept being reminded of my teenage years and that old Teisco guitar.
>    Last year, just to see how tight the pins are, I pulled a pin in octave 5
>up on a string that was about 4 cts. flat and held on to the hammer and
>measured it with the SAT at 60+cts. sharp. I settled it back and it was
>still 4 cts. flat! This seems pretty drastic.
>    It takes me almost twice as long to tune this piano, because the unisons
>just won't stay. Today I tried a technique of just pounding the hell out of
>it the whole time, and not moving on until I was sure it was stable. I wear
>earplugs and a key pounder, and still it was a very unpleasant experience. I
>find the no friction capo/aggrafe thing harder to tune than the high
>friction ones, at least when there are tight pins involved. Like the
>Steinway uprights. I love my work, but somedays.......
>Just griping,
>Ken Jankura rpt
>Fayetteville PA
>
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