There is a tooner in my area who claims to have 35 years of (in)experience.
As a surgeon, he is awful, but he does have a good bedside manner!
Bruce
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>Now, a question: why would anyone drive tight pins down?
>I have seen it many times, although rarely whole sections.
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>A speculation: inexperienced tuners who blame their poor pin setting on
>loose pins. I have sometimes checked bad unisons in such pianos only to
>find that in the vicinity of the pounded pins, some of the deviant
>pitched strings have gone UP in pitch. How do you tell someone (for for
>whom you are just giving an estimate, or conculting) that the pins are
>fine, and that his tuner may BE the problem?
>
>Bill Bailer
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>\\\ William Bailer ("Bill")
>\\\ Rochester, NY, USA; Phone (voice): 716-473-9556
>\\\ wbailer@concentric.net (same mailbox as wbailer@cris.com)
>\\\ Some interests: acoustics, JS Bach, anthropology, & pianos.
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