Hi, Ken We posted each other a while back about the smooth pull technique and I said that I would give it a try. You might remember that I was dubious about it, having formed an opinion early on that it didn't work for me. Since then, I've made some observations about what I do in different situations and noticed that when I tune grand pianos, quite often I will give a steady push (or pull) and on top of that steady effort I will add little impulses, just enough to cause some pin movement. So, it's a mixture of jerk and smooth pull, if you will. I first push the string toward flat, then pull it toward sharp - to get a feel of the pin in the block . With this knowledge, I now know in which direction to move the pin and procede with the pull and jerk technique (push and jerk if going flat). I won't say that I invented it. Maybe I just downloaded it from the psychic internet. Is this anything like what you do? Tom -- Thomas A. Cole, RPT Santa Cruz, CA mailto:tcole@cruzio.com
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