Marshall, it sounds like a birdcage upright to me. I may have oval tuning pins requiring the appropriate tuning tip. Roger Gable P.S. You may want to inform your potential customer that the cost of shipping would likely far exceed the value of the piano. In this area birdcage pianos have no monetary value. ----- Original Message ----- From: Marshall Gisondi To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:14 AM Subject: [pianotech] overdamper piano or bird cage piano Hi Everyone, I received an e-mail today regarding a piano that a potential customer is having shipped from the UK. said, "it is a straight strung, overdamped piano in good working condition..." My questions are, is there anything special I would need to do prior to tuning it i.e. remove anything out of the way of the tuning pins, obtain any special tips for my tuning lever? Does the term "strait strung" refer to a different set up as to how the strings are tuned? For example a screw stringer piano once we reach the intuneness of the note we don't pull it above pitch to settle it in as I've been taught. So any ideas would be great. I've never tuned one of these before so I want to make sure I'm not missing anything special that might need to be done or a special technique or procedure. Thanks everyone. Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 www.phillytuner.com Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110104/25cab7d1/attachment.htm>
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