So today I tuned a Baldwin grand that had rusty strings. The rust wasn't throughout the strings just in splotches along each string. When I got to the high treble I could not control the movement of the pitch as I was tuning and that was one of the worst feelings! When I wanted to turn the hammer a little bit, I heard a loud 'snap' and the pitch got away from me and went way sharp. I am assuming this is due the capo bar binding on the strings due to the rust? Anyway, what is the best approach to this type of situation? I am almost ashamed to say, but that tuning today was at best, second rate, only because I was kind of nervous about not having control of what I was doing and possible string breakage. Thank you, TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081206/48b8b698/attachment.html>
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