Wierd problem, wierd solution

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Thu Feb 1 17:06:23 MST 2007


A while ago I was tuning a Steinway M from the 1960's - this piano was, how  
should I say, "not the greatest piano in the world?" OK, I'll be straight. It  
was a piece of garbage. Anyway, one string in the middle of the piano had a 
very  annoying "tingling" sound, the kind you hear when a bridge pin is loose. 
I  tapped down the corresponding bridge pins, which did no good. I looked for 
the  cause of this sound for a few minutes, but it was like banging my head 
against  the wall. And then, for some reason, I guess it was just a hunch, I 
loosened one  tuning pin on which this string was wound, and tightened the other 
one, so  as to move the string along the bridge and have another portion of it 
resting on  the bridge pins. AND IT WORKED! Any ideas about what was the 
problem? Could it  be that for some reason the string was not bearing on the 
bridge pins  solidly?
 
Jesse Gitnik
New York
Tech. since 1980
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