Vertical tuning pins on upright

[Michael Gamble]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Fortiner" <JLFortiner@usadig.com>
To: <staytuned@idirect.com>; <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:46 AM
Subject: RE: Vertical tuning pins on upright


>> And yes - as a rule - they stay very well tuned for a long period of 
>> time -
> at least in my experience.
Which gets us neatly round to the theories of pianos going out of tune 
because the tuning pins are turning... Yes?
Michael G.(UK)
> John Fortiner
> Billings, MT.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: staytuned@idirect.com [mailto:staytuned@idirect.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 6:58 PM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Vertical tuning pins on upright
>
> In my early years in this business, I recall facing an upright piano with
> vertical tuning pins on a screw-type mechanism. I remember that it took 
> some
> cranking to change the pitch slightly.
>
> As I don't recall the make, does anyone know who the maker could have 
> been?
>
> It must have stayed tuned for a long time, for I haven't been called back
> since!
>
> John Lillico, RPT
> Oakville  ON
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