<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19328"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks John,  much appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>CT</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=formsma@gmail.com href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com">John Formsma</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 26, 2012 7:07 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pianotech] GH1 - pitch lock?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Carl,  <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Are you wanting pictures of Pitchlocks on the front duplex?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>If so, the Pitchlock.com website has them.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://pitchlock.com/pitch-lock-string-couplers/">http://pitchlock.com/pitch-lock-string-couplers/</A></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>-- <BR> <DIV>John Formsma, RPT<BR></DIV> <DIV>Blue Mountain, MS</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Carl <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:koko99@shaw.ca" target=_blank>koko99@shaw.ca</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote><U></U> <DIV bgcolor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Would be nice see a couple of pics of this.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>CT </FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4"><B>From:</B> <A title=formsma@gmail.com href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com" target=_blank>John Formsma</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target=_blank>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 24, 2012 9:49 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pianotech] GH1 - pitch lock?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>The first thing that comes to my mind is will another technician realize the Pitchlocks are there? It's fine as long as you're the only one tuning it, but someone else might not notice them at first. <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>What about putting them close to the agraffe so they're more visible?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I've had good results with using Pitchlocks on some Steinways with lots of front duplex noises. (On Steinway D's the C6-E6 area can be pretty awful.) And have used them on bass bichords a time or two.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>-- <BR> <DIV>John Formsma, RPT<BR></DIV> <DIV>Blue Mountain, MS</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Ron Koval <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:drwoodwind@hotmail.com" target=_blank>drwoodwind@hotmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote><BR>I finally have come face-to-face with what has been written about for years..<BR>An "icky" Yamaha GH1, with the untunable group of plain wire notes in<BR>the lower tenor section.  I know I've tuned a couple of GH1's in the past,<BR>but none were this terrible at the break.  B is the lowest plain wire, and from<BR>there up to about Eb, they couldn't ever sound decent with the octave above.<BR><BR>I realize that there are better, more permanent, costly options, but I wanted to give<BR>this a try for a church where I rehearse with a men's chorus...<BR><BR>I pulled out my little canister of pitch lock clips and went to work on the <BR>bridge side of the strings - closer to the bridge has a minimal effect, while<BR>further into the speaking length has a more dramatic effect.  The unison can<BR>be "tuned" by moving the clips - the further from the bridge, the flatter the <BR>pitch.<BR><BR>It is really, "less bad" than before.  The downside is that the only way to <BR>tune those strings now is with all three sounding - a nightmare! That, or maybe<BR>sliding the pitch locks up and down.  I'll be experimenting as the weather changes...<BR><SPAN><FONT color=#888888><BR>Ron Koval                                         </FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>