beckets

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On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:16:27 -0500 Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net>
writes:
> Incidentally, I've tuned a lot of pianos through the years and never 
> had  one that was "unstable" because the beckets weren't tight and the 
> coils  weren't tapped. While a field process of tightening and tapping
will 
> obviously drop the pitch considerably in a lot of cases, not doing 
> so won't  typically have a detrimental effect on tuning stability in an

> existing piano.
> 
> Ron N

Ron -

I couldn't agree more.  In 25 years of tuning I have never been able to
draw a correlation between coil 'prettiness' and tuning stability.  Ohio
weather is the big bully here, and pretty coils or not, they all, for the
most part, exhibit the same behavior.  I would find it very difficult to
ask my customer to bear the expense of making the coils look better with
the promise of better tuning stability.  

There are bigger fires.....  

Mark Potter
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