Actually, I had a situation like this 6 or 7 years ago on a restrung Steinway O that was completely untunable. I did the basically same thing except I lowered tension, popped out the beckets and backed all the pins out with a drill. Then replaced the beckets and drove the pins down to their original height. They all tuned very nicely afterwards and it only took about 4 hours total. Of course there was a follow up tuning later in the week.... --Dave New Orleans David Ilvedson wrote: > Well, that has never worked for me...but then I didn't do it for 7 hours! Jeez... > > David Ilvedson, RPT > Pacifica, CA 94044 > > ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- > From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net> > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Received: 11/27/2009 7:21:45 PM > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Oversized tuning pins > > >> I have a church client which (who?) purchased a 9-foot Shigeru, and two >> Estonias. One of the Estonias was so bad that every pin popped, and I >> finally told them it was un-tunable. Short story.... I told them I thought >> I could fix it, so called the guys from whom they got it and was to have a >> shot. Seven hours later jerking pins back and forth, there were only about >> two pins popping and the rest just quite tight. >> les Bartlett Piano Service
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