<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Noah, check that the becket is not pulling out.  If the string is not inserted all the way thru the Tuning-pin hole it will withdraw under tension.<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; color: rgb(34, 58, 168); "><span style="font: normal normal normal 20px/normal 'Corsiva Hebrew'; "><b>   </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">Tom Gorley</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Kokonor; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#910f08">Registered Piano Technician    </font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; color: rgb(62, 0, 147); "><span><b>      </b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">(650) 948-9522</span></div></span></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal 'Book Antiqua'; color: rgb(62, 0, 147); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Dec 5, 2012, at 1:15 PM, <a href="mailto:pianotech-request@ptg.org">pianotech-request@ptg.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 16:15:37 -0500<br>From: Noah Frere <<a href="mailto:noahfrere@gmail.com">noahfrere@gmail.com</a>><br>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br>Subject: [pianotech] Won't Stay in Tune<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><<a href="mailto:CABKkihoKiQ4d+ocUwbt92Gd6=ADjkWrrqaU4JR2kW4g2MMt3Tg@mail.gmail.com">CABKkihoKiQ4d+ocUwbt92Gd6=ADjkWrrqaU4JR2kW4g2MMt3Tg@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>I just restrung a 1908 Whitney 3/4 plate tall Upright, with new bridge pins<br>epoxied in using a syringe, ad 4/0 tuning pins. The pins are tight. I<br>repeat, the middle string on F#6 has a TIGHT tuning pin, tight bridge pins,<br>and a tight hitch pin. The string wraps around and comes up the right side<br>as the right string.<br><br>Sounds good, right? No - that note (and the center string of A#7) will not<br>stay in tune for even 4 seconds! You can just hear it drop as you strike<br>the string, like a miracle (or the opposite thereof.) The other notes,<br>including the outside strings of F#6 and A#7 are fine.<br></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>