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<DIV>I indicated in my original post that several times this tuning and =
on
previous tunings I have applied a liberal dose of Protek to the string, =
the
felt, the agraffe - all to no avail (maybe worked a little less bad, but =
a bad
problem still existed - I spent 3 hours tuning that monster that was =
only about
4 cents flat - of course that included crawling around looking for =
buzzes,
pondering the sticky string thing, and afterward listening to this woman =
rip
through a bunch of Rachmananof (sp?) (the whole process was not painful =
- even
60-year-old tubby bass strings don't sound all that bad when you hit =
them just
right and in the right order - and my upper tenor section seemed to =
hold
it's tune!).</DIV>
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<DIV>Terry Farrell</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mcpiano@globetrotter.net
href="mailto:mcpiano@globetrotter.net">Marcel Carey</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 17, =
2002 11:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: Painted String
Rendering</DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Terry,<BR><BR>I =
remember
someone telling this list that the culprit could very well be friction =
between
the strings and it's underfelt. I had a Heintzman that was excatly =
like what
you described and I cured it with a somewhat generous application of =
protek on
the underfelt.<BR><BR>Try it out and let us know.<BR><BR>Marcel
Carey<BR></FONT><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From:
owner-pianotech@ptg.org [</FONT><A =
href="mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT
size=2>mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT size=2>]On =
Behalf<BR>Of
Farrell<BR>Sent: 17 janvier, 2002 17:30<BR>To: =
pianotech@ptg.org<BR>Subject:
Painted String Rendering<BR><BR><BR>I tuned a 1940s Baldwin L today. =
It has
always been a nasty piano to tune.<BR><BR>Sounds like we have a good =
reason to
restring. Yes?<BR><BR></FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial =
color=#000080>If
the customer can afford it GO FOR IT !<BR></FONT><BR>Terry
Farrell<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>