<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE>.hmmessage P { PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } BODY.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY class=hmmessage bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hi Were the MICRO pins smaller? No pun intended.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE 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=mcpianos@hotmail.com href="mailto:mcpianos@hotmail.com">Marcel Carey</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> Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:17 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: very strange tuning mechanism</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Well, I've seen a strange one once. I don't remember the name, but it had 6 tuning pins per unisons. It had one to make major changes and the second row of pins were just pushing on the non speaking lenght between the pressure bar and the other regular tuning pins. So, I could adjust the regular pins and then make micro changes with the second tuning pin. The secondary pins were not tight, were easy to turn and a 10 degree turn would make about a 2 ¢ change. Talk about tuning precision.<BR> <BR>Now if only the piano had been worth all the extra pin turning...<BR> <BR>Marcel Carey<BR>Sherbrooke, QC<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <HR id=EC_stopSpelling> <BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Subject: Re: very strange tuning mechanism<BR>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:40:31 -0400<BR>From: paulrevenkojones@aol.com<BR><BR><BR> <DIV>Hmmm. Never meta-Meusel. <BR><BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">P</FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Gregor _ <karlkaputt@hotmail.com><BR>To: pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Sent: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 4:33 am<BR>Subject: very strange tuning mechanism<BR><BR> <DIV id=EC_AOLMsgPart_2_32ed3d95-214d-4339-9b3c-4f3e04027b6b> <STYLE> .ExternalClass #EC_AOLMsgPart_2_32ed3d95-214d-4339-9b3c-4f3e04027b6b .EC_hmmessage P {padding:0px;} .ExternalClass #EC_AOLMsgPart_2_32ed3d95-214d-4339-9b3c-4f3e04027b6b body.EC_hmmessage {font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;} </STYLE> in some old pianos (very seldom) we find very strange mechanisms for tuning, i.e. without tuning pins. Instead of the pins there are screws. The function is like the fine tuning screws of violins. Did you ever see such mechanisms? I saw 2 of them in the last 10 years: one Crasselt & Raehse and one Gebr. Meusel, Hamburg. Have you ever heard of Meusel? I could find nothing with Google and my Lexikon Of German Pianomakers says nothing, too. And in a book I read about Emil Lämmerhirt, Berlin, who constructed pianos with a "Patentschraubenstimmung" (patent screw tuning).<BR><BR>I regret that I had no camera to make pictures of these historic interesting instruments. Has anybody else fotos of these mechanisms? At least that Crasselt & Raehse had a very stable tuning. I came back after 3 years and the tuning was still fine.<BR><BR>Gregor<BR><BR> <HR> Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! <A href="http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us" target=_blank>Try it!</A>= </DIV> <DIV class=EC_aol_ad_footer id=EC_u8CABA17A4F0BF0B-91C-C97><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black" face=""> <HR> The Famous, the Infamous, the Lame - in your browser. <A title=http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014 href="http://toolbar.aol.com/tmz/download.html?NCID=aolcmp00050000000014" target=_blank>Get the TMZ Toolbar Now</A>!</FONT> </DIV><BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE><A href="" target=_new></A></BODY></HTML>