Todd The snap you heard is the pin turning in the pin block. It has nothing to do with the string. Baldwin grands are notorious for having very tight pins, and they are a bear to fine tune. It just takes a lot of experience, and patience.? Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 4:59 pm Subject: [pianotech] Scary Experience 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/20081207/3834258c/attachment.html>
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