---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Mike, Might be a silicone contamination but that still sounds pretty=20 extreme. How are the becket holes? Are they rounded out or buggered up in=20 some way? You could try making a reverse bend in the wire you left hanging= =20 out of the other side. Sounds like a fun little puzzle. Keep us posted ok? Greg Newell At 11:53 PM 5/28/2004, you wrote: >Hi List, > >I tuned a piano today. Very nice Kawai console, about 17 yrs old. It=20 >looks like it's 2 years old. Piano is up to pitch. Nothing out of the=20 >ordinary. I tuned up to f#7 and broke that string. I could almost "tell"= =20 >it was going to break. The pitch wasn't changing and the pin got harder=20 >to turn. But, I wasn't focusing on that, so it broke. > >Now comes the strange part. I replaced the string. As I was bringing it= =20 >up to tension, it broke. That's a first for me. Let me start off by=20 >saying I think I'm a pretty good stringer. Becketts are always tight in=20 >the pin, coils are perfect, the right number of coils and pin height is=20 >all perfect. Ok....maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention when this= =20 >string broke. String number 2 (or three however you look at it) put it=20 >on...again...perfect. Finished tuning the piano. Went back to touch-up=20 >tune the new strings and wow ....they dropped in pitch. Ok...retune=20 >them. retune them...retune them...retune them....HEY! Something's going= =20 >on here. I stopped and tuned just one string. As I tune, I bring it up=20 >to pitch, but now I keep playing the note with out turning the pin. I can= =20 >easily hear the pitch dropping. I retune and the same thing. I look at=20 >the pin, and the beckett is clearly slipping out. Finally the whole thing= =20 >pops out. Damn...Next string I made sure there was wire poking out the=20 >other side. Finished tuning it up and noticed the pitch was dropping on=20 >this new string too...Man how can this happen? > >I let the customer know there may be a problem here in the future, as I'm= =20 >getting frustrated at this point. Pitch was still dropping when I=20 >left. I'm thinking I may need to replace the tuning pin. I know I could= =20 >just put the wire through farther and bend it over like Baldwin does on=20 >their vertical pianos. > >This shouldn't be happening right? Like I said...I think I can string=20 >well enough, that that isn't the problem. > >Any thoughts > >Mike Bratcher Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/00/99/4c/81/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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