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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't have a lot of S&S =
experience (in the
Ozarks? Gimme a break!) but I do tune a few.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tuned an "L" infantile horizontal
piano today and got thinking while wrestling with it. Pinblock =
quite tight
(somewhat jumpy pins), string movement resistance quite high, and the =
collarless
pins VERY sensitive to pressure in any direction--up pitch, down pitch,
flagpoling, whatever. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I find many notes very hard to pull in =
for sweet
unisons. I was personally taught by Randy Potter how to tune stable =
strings
& pins but found that moving the pin in teeny notches is very =
hard--too
high, too low, too high ... </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I got it just a hair over pitch and =
tried to
settle everything with back pressure on the hammer, it dropped way too =
much.
Finally, with time running out and getting a little desperate, I started =
dropping pitch (about a 45 degree turn of the hammer) and tuning "from =
the
bottom" with a smooth steady pull while wanging the string pretty hard. =
Most of
the time I could stop right on pitch --even on strings I had spent WAY =
too long
trying to tune the "normal" way.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But I worry about how stable they are =
as I could
not "set" the pin in the usual way.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is this pretty typical =
Steinway?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What about stability in these
circumstances?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What hammer techniques do y'all use on =
the
beasts?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NOTE: While tuning, I was rehearsing a
pretty negative inner dialog about Steinway and all of their =
"genuine
Steinway parts;" thinking how expensive they are and how much they look =
like
every other piano, etc. BUT after I tuned it, I played it. Even for a =
small
piano, what a beautiful, sweet sound. Oh, the subtleties ...
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