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<div> Richard,<br>
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I've experienced this more than once...a couple of times, right before a string broke! <br>
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Also, as David Skolnik suggested, you might check hammer/string contact.<br>
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<div style="clear: both;">Dave Stahl, RPT<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: rsanbornmorgan@yahoo.com<br>
To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>
Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 4:21 AM<br>
Subject: Pin moves, pitch doesn't<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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