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<font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">Hi, Marshall <br>
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I can think of two things which might have happened. The string may not
have been seated on <br>
the hitch pin. It may have been hooked around the top of the hitch pin.
Letting it down before <br>
pulling it up might have released it enough that it slipped down to
where it should have been, <br>
which would lower the pitch. <br>
<br>
The other possibility I can think of is that a bridge pin with a crack
next to it might <br>
have given up and gone vertical. So, without side bearing, the string
would have gone low in <br>
pitch, but could later be tuned back up. <br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Susan <br>
<br>
<br>
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Marshall Gisondi wrote:
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="3">Hi Everyone,</font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="3">Since we are on the topic of strings. I
had this weird thing hapen. I was tuning this spinet piano a couple of
weeks ago. The person who had it before my new customer painted it and
pretty much ruined the outside of it and the new owner painted it too.
Getting that bottom panel off was tough, but I did it lol . Anyway, I
was doing the pitch raise on it and while tuning hmm I think one of the
last six notes in the treble way up top. G maybe or A not sure. Well I
raised the pitch and I heard a ping and the pitch fell. I though the
string broke. It did not break. I brought it up again and it was
fine. I felt around and didn't find any sign of breakage. I'm guessing
that the string got hung up in the rendering process due to rust and
thus stretched but fell because it didn't tighten up or move over the
bridge. Is this a possibility? Oh and this piano didn't have a name
anywhere on the plate, but only a serial number on the back top corner
right I think. It did have wood elbows I believe. I wonder if one of
you guys put them on. lol :-) The owner of the piano said that the key
cover was missing as well Perhaps the name was stenciled there. </font><br>
<font face="Arial" size="3">Marshall</font><br>
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