Moving from Uprights to Grands

[gordon stelter]

Thanks Susan,
     Around here I have seen at least a  DOZEN
shattered pinblocks, because some idjit was too lazy
to put a pin-block support jack under them before
driving the pins. On NICE pianos, too !!~~!~
     Then they carved off the upper edge of the
key-covers, because they hit on the shattered lams!
     SHEESH !!!!!
     Thump


--- Susan Kline <skline@peak.org> wrote:

> At 11:21 AM 7/20/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >When someone feels he/she may be ready to begin
> trying their hand
> >at tuning Grand pianos, (when all they have had
> experience tuning is
> >Uprights), what should they do first?
> 
> While I'm sure you can work it out for yourself,
> especially with
> all the hints you've received, you might feel better
> doing it if
> you just watch a good technician tuning a grand
> first.
> 
> It's certainly no harder than an upright, except
> that some of the
> instruments are much better and much, much more
> expensive.
> 
> And yes, raise the dampers with the pedal before you
> put in a strip
> mute. Otherwise, whenever you play a note you can
> drag out the little
> ends of the split wedge felt.
> 
> Also, if you are ever tempted to drive down a loose
> tuning pin in a grand,
> though that is getting to be an obsolete technique
> these days, be
> aware that if you don't remove the action and
> support the bottom
> of the pinblock, you can cause delamination. Not a
> good thing at all, at all.
> 
> Susan Kline 
> 
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