<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16525" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Howard:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>No, You'r not the only one. But I have found that after they have had time to cure (about a year or year and a half) they do much better.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gerald McCleskey</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianotuna55@comcast.net href="mailto:pianotuna55@comcast.net">pianotuna55@comcast.net</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 18, 2007 5:02 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Pearl River strings hanging in agraffes</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Hello list:</DIV> <DIV>I do the service work for the local Pearl River dealer here in town.  For their size and price, they get a surprisingly decent sound.   There is a troublesome problem in tuning these brand new pianos: the plain wire strings "hang" in the agraffes.  The "ping" is not in every string but enough to make the tuning difficult.  You know what I mean.  I've dropped the tension before tightening and this helps some but the problem still exists.  I haven't contacted Pearl about this yet.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now, am I the only one that is having this problem?</DIV> <DIV>Howard Jackson</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>