Pin moves, pitch doesn't

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  Richard,
 
 I've experienced this more than once...a couple of times, right before a string broke! 
 
 Also, as David Skolnik suggested, you might check hammer/string contact.
    Dave Stahl, RPT
 
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 -----Original Message-----
 From: rsanbornmorgan at yahoo.com
 To: pianotech at ptg.org
 Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 4:21 AM
 Subject: Pin moves, pitch doesn't
 
   On Saturday, I encountered a problem I haven't experienced before. On two separate pianos, a single tuning pin would turn, but the pitch wouldn't, until much later. Test blows had no significant effect. On one piano, I muted the string, since it was an outside string, and I would not see it again for a while. On the other, I got it to pitch, or so I thought. Since I would see it again (it's at my church), I didn't mute it, but figured I'd retouch it before it was used next. And, of course, that note drifted noticeably. The first piano was a spinet that hadn't been tuned in a while, and the second was a Steinway M that I have tuned fairly regularly, and have not experienced this problem before.   What did I do to cause that phenomenon (apparently on the Steinway, the problem is mine), and what can I do to fix it?   Thanks in advance for all the help available from this list. Richard Morgan  
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