Does the company who sold the piano have no responsibility to fix this problem? I spent a number of hours at their recommendation, attempting to loosen the pins, back and forth up to 40 times. Local symphony tuner came to look at another problem, was told about the pins, and they were fine. Now, six months later, they're back to being as tight as they were when the piano was delivered. I am getting within a couple cents on most notes, but it's a four-hour tuning. I don't particularly like that kind of stress. The gig involves all three pianos Sunday night. I got the Shigueru done today, and one pass of each Estonia- 8 hours with a fifteen minute break for lunch. I'll put four hours in tomorrow.. No, I'm not being paid extra, except the man in charge said I needed to put a surcharge on the one Estonia. But back to my question- doesn't the company selling the instrument have responsibility for a number of years? thanks les b _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Bartlett Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:40 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] tuning pin tightness A local church bought three pianos, roughly topping out at $200,000. Two are Estonias. On one the pins are so tight they pop, most of the quite loudly making it un-tunable for all practical purposes. These are about one year old. What would you recommend as far as some action regarding the piano? I'm afraid of twisting pins to breaking point. thanks les bartlett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100130/d5ca7585/attachment.htm>
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