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<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif">Sometimes, if the becket is broken, the coils or adjacent strings will still hold your string in place but turning the pin, obviously, has no effect. Look for a broken string right where it bends to enter the becket hole of the pin.<br /><br />Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO<br /><br />
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<hr />Original message<br />From: "Richard Morgan"
<rsanbornmorgan@yahoo.com> </rsanbornmorgan@yahoo.com><br />To: pianotech@ptg.org<br />Received: 4/2/2007 6:21:24 AM<br />Subject: Pin moves, pitch doesn't<br /><br />
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<div>On Saturday, I encountered a problem I haven't experienced before. On two separate pianos, a single tuning pin would turn, but the pitch wouldn't, until much later. Test blows had no significant effect. On one piano, I muted the string, since it was an outside string, and I would not see it again for a while. On the other, I got it to pitch, or so I thought. Since I would see it again (it's at my church), I didn't mute it, but figured I'd retouch it before it was used next. And, of course, that note drifted noticeably. The first piano was a spinet that hadn't been tuned in a while, and the second was a Steinway M that I have tuned fairly regularly, and have not experienced this problem before.</div>
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<div>What did I do to cause that phenomenon (apparently on the Steinway, the problem is mine), and what can I do to fix it?</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance for all the help available from this list.</div>
<div>Richard Morgan</div>
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