Ron , Apparently when then tecknician was restringing the tenor and almost reached the tenor/treble plate strut he noticed that he had run out of hitch pins but still had tuning pin holes to fill. The owner was looking-on at the time and saw it. The teck then loosened a large section of pins and just moved to the corrected hitch and brought it up to tension with some pins having anywhere form one wrap to four wraps. As far as the untidy coils, I would think that a clean tight coil might help keep the becket from slipping. Kind of like a barrel knot in a fishing line. I'll post as photo. Sorry about the quality. The soundboard had separations from rib which he epoxy pushed in and the gap remains. That's more or less in the cut off area so I wasn't too concerned. The crown was positive but minimal. There is lots of glue squeeze around the bridge pins from that operation. Looks like epoxy also. The refinish was a Pianolac (sp) product. It is very cloudy with patches of dense cloudiness all over. All of the new parts are Renner with Abel Hammers. He added a second punching to the let off button to compensate for the new whippen. I really have not had the time to look into the action performance as my first appointment was to correct damper system errors. I did squeeze all of the beckets and tune the piano. I have discussed the possibility of starting from the beginning at the keys and systematically correcting action anomalies but as it stands now I've instructed him to play the heck out of it to see if the tuning I did will stay somewhat stable or if the string becket and coil windings fail. I would rather address the music wire situation before I work my way into the other areas. David Chadwick Las Vegas ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: Glued back action flange > >> Thanks Dale, >> I have told him that the tuning stability will never be acheived. > > Why not? Sloppy coils, once settled, won't affect tuning stability at all. > Non functional cosmetics aside, if you can squeeze the beckets in tight > and tap the top of the coil down snug, the rest is gravy. > > >>This guy want the Steinway he paid for but is very skeptical > > If sloppy beckets and a lousy regulation is the worst of the problems, he > got very lucky indeed. I'd suggest looking closer at the real stuff. Check > soundboard crown against string bearing, and look very closely at action > geometry and hammer bore distances. What you've mentioned is likely the > tip of the iceberg. > Ron N > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IM000809.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 57895 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080709/95f2925b/attachment-0001.jpe
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