[pianotech] Urg

[Porritt, David]

I watched a tuner work on a piano for the symphony many years ago.  He put his lever on the pin at 12:00 and never turned it.  He pulled it up to sharpen and pushed down to flatten.  Even at that early stage in my career I thought that really was not the way to do it.  

With any kind of leverage you can bend a pin tuning that way.

dp


David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:30 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Urg

David Boyce wrote:
> " He also bends tuning pins".  That's quite a skill!
>  
> D.

I've wonder every time I see his name and bent pins in a 
piano, how that is possible.
Ron N