<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>A while ago I was tuning a Steinway M from the 1960's - this piano was, how should I say, "not the greatest piano in the world?" OK, I'll be straight. It was a piece of garbage. Anyway, one string in the middle of the piano had a very annoying "tingling" sound, the kind you hear when a bridge pin is loose. I tapped down the corresponding bridge pins, which did no good. I looked for the cause of this sound for a few minutes, but it was like banging my head against the wall. And then, for some reason, I guess it was just a hunch, I loosened one tuning pin on which this string was wound, and tightened the other one, so as to move the string along the bridge and have another portion of it resting on the bridge pins. AND IT WORKED! Any ideas about what was the problem? Could it be that for some reason the string was not bearing on the bridge pins solidly?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jesse Gitnik</DIV> <DIV>New York</DIV> <DIV>Tech. since 1980</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>