Hi Lance. I suspect the kinks themselves do little to contribute to the false beats, and I doubt seriously un-kinking them will help. Rather... the force required to create such a kink directed in against the bridge/bridgepin is bound to cause some degree of springyness to the termination as a whole. Not much you can do except to relieve that condition as best as possible. CA may help, repinning may help... you might consider repinning with epoxy. Check a few unisons to see how deep/steep an indentation in the bridge wood has been made and look for an elongation of the surface area around the bridge pin hole. Cheers RicB A "new" RPT tech working for me got a little excited about string voicing and in the process of "tapping" down strings on a new piano, went too far. The strings were hit in the speaking length segment, in the direction of termination with the bridge pin V. In other words, straightening the speaking length segment before it terminates at the bridge pin. Consequently, there is a visible "dent/kink" in the wire in the speaking length just before the bridge termination, creating more false beats than the ones that were to be eliminated. Is there a cure short of restringing that section? i.e., loosening string and straightening wire with hook as good as possible and retightening? Thanks. Lance Lafargue, RPT LAFARGUE PIANOS, LTD LPIANOS.com lafargue at bellsouth.net 4244 Hwy 22 Mandeville, LA 70471 985.72P.IANO -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20061215/26b5a245/attachment.html
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