I'm reluctant to speak for others, but it seems rather clear to me that the unnamed OP asked two distinct questions. One was about analyzing a piano prior to tuning it. The second one relates to tuning stability in the process of tuning... not in pre-tuning analysis.<div>
<br></div><div>I originally read the questions rather quickly and was likewise confused... why do you want to set pins before you tune? So I re-read the post and discovered the second question... actually second and third questions, which the third is mostly just a re-wording of the second.<br>
<div><br></div><div>Paul Bruesch</div><div>Stillwater, MN</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Euphonious Thumpe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><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>
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For the time it would take to "<span>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" href="http://unigeezer.com/" target="_blank">www.unigeezer.com</a><br>
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Subject: [pianotech] How to analyze an existing tuning<br><br>
<div><span>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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