<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=Windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> Terry, 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. Try it out and let us know. Marcel Carey -----Original Message----- From: = owner-pianotech@ptg.org [<A href="mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org">mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org</A>]On = Behalf Of Farrell Sent: 17 janvier, 2002 17:30 To: = pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Painted String Rendering I tuned a 1940s Baldwin L today. It = has always been a nasty piano to tune. Sounds like we have a good = reason to restring. Yes? If the customer can afford it GO FOR IT ! Terry Farrell </BODY></HTML>