<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Ed,</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Thanks for sharing your experiences.. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Dave Davis RPT<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: "A440A@aol.com" <A href="mailto:A440A@aol.com">A440A@aol.com</A><BR>
<DIV><BR>Greetings,<BR> I have many pianos that I have tuned at least weekly for the last 25 <BR>years. Some of the stage and recording studio pianos I care for have been tuned <BR>twice or more weekly for all this time. I cannot discern any negative effects <BR>that tuning has had on them. The pins at C88 have aged the same as the pins <BR>at the bass break,(which seem to get a LOT more twisting in a given year than <BR>most of the rest of the piano). <BR> In 1980, I restrung a 1966 Steinway D that a former tech had restrung <BR>(with the totally wrong sizes of wire), in 1974. I replaced the 3/0 pins with 4/0 <BR>pins. At the time, I had never heard of, or had, tendonitis, carpal tunnel <BR>syndrome, or rotator cuff problems associated with tuning. I didn't mind the <BR>180 in/lbs of torque that the 4/0 pins started with. I figured they would <BR>loosen up with
time and tuning. <BR>WRONG! This piano is still a bear to tune because I have never seen these <BR>pins change their torque. <BR> The only times a pinblock has shown the effects of pin rotation in my <BR>experience is when some ignorant, mis-informed, insensitve, yahoo has replaced <BR>a string by turning the pin out three turns and then wound the new string's <BR>coil around it by turning it back down! Every time I have seen this done, the <BR>affected pin has lost a significant amount of torque. (Why don't we call that <BR>one a "dummy-pin" when they do that, rather than the spare one I use to form a <BR>coil on the replacement string?)<BR> I think the small increments used in tuning have no effect on pin <BR>torque, but the full rotation possibly swedges the hole by whatever amount of "out <BR>of roundness" that the pin has. <BR>Regards,<BR><BR><BR><BR>Ed Foote RPT
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