<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>RE: tune, chip with oversized pins?</title> </head> <body> <div align="left">Apparently you are repinning the entire piano with original strings.   Be prepared for some breaking beckets, especially in the bass.   How does a complete restringing with new wire compare to what you're planning?   Certainly more but you might want to give the customer that option.   At least give them the option of new bass strings...unless this is a newer piano?...</div> <div align="left"> </div> <div align="left">I think old strings should come right up to pitch and be pretty stable...but 2 tunings not 1.   What does that old codger, Joe, know anyway...;-]<br/><br/>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/></div> <div align="left"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "daniel carlton" <hacicspe@gmail.com> </hacicspe@gmail.com><br/>To: "pianotech mailing list" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 3/24/2008 8:39:50 AM<br/>Subject: tune, chip with oversized pins?<br/><br/> <div align="left">hi all</div> <div> </div> <div>i looked for about thirty minutes in the archives for info on this topic, but i didn't find an answer and i didn't want to wade through 336 more results from google...</div> <div>i'm drawing up an estimate for someone and i need to know how many tunings to include.</div> <div>so i'm looking in the "G" piano works labor guide for installing an entire set of oversized pins, and it says it includes one tuning. now i guess i can understand only needing a tuning and maybe a pitch adjust if you replace and pull up-to-pitch one pin at a time as you go. but it seems that one-atta-time is slower than all-at-once gang style. </div> <div>if you replaced all the pins gang style, you'd need to chip and tune a few times right?</div> <div>i think the question i need answered most is if i do it one at a time, which i can do pretty quickly, is the tuning going to end up pretty close to pitch when I'm done?</div> <div> </div> <div>thanks all</div> <div> </div> <div>daniel carlton</div> </div> </body> </html>