[pianotech] Slipping Becket

[Joe Goss]

If you made the becket longer, why not bend the tail over?
Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 8:11 AM
Subject: [pianotech] Slipping Becket


>I have an interesting problem with a Yamaha C7 c 1980.  Nickel pins.  There
> is one pin in which I can't get the becket to not slip and be pulled 
> through
> the pin.  Interestingly I've tuned this piano many times.  At this most
> recent tuning I was going over the tuning and noticed that one unison 
> (high
> treble) had slipped considerably.  My first thought was that I had for
> skipped it somehow in my sequence.  But as I pulled it up to pitch again 
> it
> simply continued to slip back. I realized that the becket was moving so 
> took
> off the string, cut off the old becket and reinserted the string with a
> longer becket.  This one slipped as well.  Since the string spanned two
> notes and was high up in the piano I decided to leave it until I could
> decide to either replace the tuning pin or figure out exactly why this was
> happening.  I've avoided nickel tuning pins for various reasons (mostly
> looks and tuning lever feel) when possible but haven't encountered 
> something
> like this.  There is clearly something about the pin which is causing this
> to happen but I'm not sure exactly what that is.  Thoughts?
>
> David Love
> www.davidlovepianos.com
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