On any piano with high counter bearing (c/b) angles you can't finesse the string/pin. The high friction does not lend to fine adjustments. The best way to tune these is to pull the string to pitch and leave it. This leaves the tension between c/b and pin higher than the speaking length for a more stable tuning. If you lower the tension, because of the friction involved, the pin to c/b tension is extremely low and causes an unstable tuning. On hard blows the lower tension will creep through but a higher front tension will hold the pitch on a hard blow. There can be no pin setting style of the ever diminishing series of raising and lowering tension to feel the torque in the pin and set the string rendering with the final movement with a nudge up to maintain higher tension between pin and c/b. Pull it up and move on. Set it and Forget it, you're cooked. -- Regards, Jon Page
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