[pianotech] How to tune a Winter Spinet

[John Formsma]

You make a good point, Joe. I've done a couple small Yamaha Gs in the last 3
weeks. Also a new Vogel (by Schimmel). Tight pins, lots of flagpoling and
rendering issues. Winter spinets are indeed to be preferred over those!

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JF

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  Winter Spinets are  lovely compared to the crap I've had to  attempt to
> tune this week!!! The first one was a Yammie GA-1. IMHO, the GA stands for
> Gawd Awful!! It is worse than the olde GH-1's, (which stood for Grand
> Horrible One). They still don't have the scaling worked out in regards to
> Short Infantile types! (Even after I worked out a better solution 20+ years
> ago...which they paid for and totally disregarded! And that was when I knew
> pretty much Zilch about Scales!)<G>
> Then,  today, A lovely Melodigrand Spinet, 64 notes. I'll have to say that
> was better then the Yammie. At least I didn't have to chase the  sucker all
> over the tuning map!
> Have a Cool Yule Fool
> Joe
>
>
> Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon)
> Captain, Tool Police
> Squares R I
>
>
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