beckets

[Farrell]

Speaking of beckets........

Tuned a Samick console today and when checking the tuning I had just completed, noticed G#6 unison was bad - right string flat. Figured I simply missed turning that one. So I cranked on the pin and it wouldn't sharpen. Oops - do I have my lever on the wrong pin? Nope. Crank a little more and BANG. Oh shoot, did I break the string? Nope. The string popped out of the becket! I guess it creeping out is what caused the string to go flat. That was a first for me.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan" <tune4u@earthlink.net>
To: "'Pianotech'" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:29 AM
Subject: RE: beckets


> Loosen the coil just enough so you can push it down below the becket
> hole with a screwdriver, use the old needlenose on the becket then bring
> the tension up while still holding the coil down. Ideally, the end of
> the wire should be just shyly peeking out of the hole, about as far out
> as the wire thickness. 
> 
> Alan R. Barnard
> Salem, MO
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Airy
> Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 3:09 AM
> To: Piano Tech list - PTG
> Subject: Re: beckets
> 
> 
> What do I do in my piano when the end of the wire pushes against the
> coils on the other side?  Do I use a coil lifter/dropper, or leave it,
> or what?
> 
> http://pianoplayer.hey.nu/pianopics/tenorbeckets.jpg
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Dave Nereson" <davner@kaosol.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 01:42:19 -0600
> Subject: beckets
> 
> <<I'd love to have someone show me how to tighten beckets. So far my
> efforts have produced no change in pitch--which I assume should be
> there. Comments?>>
> 
>     Not much to show.  Where the wire enters the tuning pin, that
>     right-angle bend should be against the pin, or as close to the pin
> as
>     possible.  If it sticks out, squeeze it in with a pair of parallel
>     pliers (needlenose will work also, but tend to slip).  Often the
>     pitch will drop 20 cents, 50 cents, even more sometimes.  
>     It's not really "tightening" the becket, it's just getting rid of
>     some slack wire that has the potential of letting the string go
> flat. 
>     If it's already squeezed in as far as it will go, then of course the
>     pitch won't change.   
> --David Nereson, RPT
> 
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