A Bag - A Bang

[Dave Davis]

  I've recently tuned a couple of new Pearl River
uprights in the customer's home for a local dealer.

  Pitch was a tad low on the first, and the strings
acted like they were sticking to the pressure bar.  I
had to lower each string then bring it up to pitch.
(If you're counting, it took 3 passes)
  
  The second piano was 12 cents sharp, and as I
lowered pitch about every 3rd or 4th string would BANG
like it had been super stuck.  Imagine the sound of a
breaking string...amplified.  It was hair-raising.  

   I'm thinking the container these pianos were in got
dunked in seawater before reaching our shores.  Or
maybe somebody ate the "don't eats".

Dave Davis
Renton, WA

--- Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> Well, I've talked myself out of something yet again.
> Having considered a 
> few things, I can in fact see the need for desiccant
> packages in sealed crates.
> 
> Even though the piano is at the MC of the air in the
> sealed crate, there's 
> no telling what that MC was when it was packed.
> Moving the crate from a hot 
> place (like a truck in the sun) to a dock or
> warehouse where the 
> temperature will get below the dew point of the air
> in the crate overnight, 
> will condense moisture on the strings, tuning pins,
> etc - unless the 
> desiccant absorbs it as it is released from the
> piano.
> 
> Ok, I get it now. That makes sense to me, but I
> don't think putting 
> desiccant bags under the keys ever will.
> Ron N
> 
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