At 14:14 -0500 04/01/2011, Marshall Gisondi wrote: >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? All you need is a Papps wedge, which you can probably get new from Schaff and certainly on eBay, also new. >Does the term "strait strung" refer to a different set up as to how >the strings are tuned? Not usually. It just means all the strings are nearly vertical and nearly parallel and in the same plane. >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. The only "screw-strung" verticals from England are a small number produced for a time by Brinsmead. All you need to tune these, if the original key is lost, is a common 10 mm box spanner. >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... I'd wait till you see it before you decide whether you would have missed something special! Only one in 500 of these is worth looking at, but if they're shipping it to the USA they must either be mad or think they've got a goodun. JD
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