Tightening the plate...

[Donald Lemoine]

first time customers i always tighten plates, and very careful not to
overtighten, i will recheck the
plate screws again in a couple of years or so.  if you tighten them up the
way you should, that should
be sufficent,  If you ever brake a screw in a customers house and have to
replace it, you will wish the hell you never retightened them so often , 
once should last , and when rechecking dont be so
hard on the screws, good luck
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>From: Don <drose@dlcwest.com>
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Tightening the plate...
>Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2000, 1:21 PM
>

>Hi Kevin,
>
>As to never having to do it again--that is dependant on the climatic
>conditions. If you live in an area of humidity extremes as I do, you can
>tighten the plates screws every winter--for every summer the wood expands
>and crushes. 
>
>
>At 07:12 AM 02/25/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>>I always tighten the plate screws when I first see a piano. I think it gives
>>the tuning more stability, and doing floors tunings, you are probably the
>>first person to see it. 
>Regards,
>Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
>
>Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
>
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