<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>Terry is right, but for showing up and doing a quick pitch-raise pass on an obvious "beater", if you really want to know, you should get your trip's worth, anyhow. But if you want to try to check without a full tuning, check those pins that are A) closest together B) nearest the edge of the block 3) in the low bass. (Most likely to be loose.) And do a quick run up the keyboard for notes so out of tune that they might have "spinning pins", and check those. <br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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For the time it would take to "<span class="ecx907241909-19122012">analyze/test <u>each</u> pin
& string</span>", you could just tune it!<br><br><br>Terry "UniGeezer" Peterson<br>"Over 50, and not '2' Tired!" <br><a rel="nofollow" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" href="http://unigeezer.com/">www.unigeezer.com</a><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: pianofortetechnology@saol.com<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:48:23 +0200<br>Subject: [pianotech] How to analyze an existing tuning<br><br>
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<div><span class="ecx907241909-19122012">May I ask you folks how you analyze a piano
before you tune it, your procedure? Also in particular I would like
to know how one analyzes, for example, each tuning pin/string of a
note though that particular note is showing/sounding as a clean sounding octave
and unison? Though it sounds good, how does one analyze/test each pin
& string to make sure it is actually solid & stable?</span></div>
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