Tom, Your right, Randy does caution against poor practice of manipulating the pin "playing the slot machine" or randomly yanking downwards on it. It's possible that I have a more updated version of the course but in the tuning video George Defebaugh demonstrates proper manipulation of the pin. I don't have the course in front of me (I'm at my real job-UGH) but when I get to it I'll get you a page number on that material. I'd be interested to compare notes.. Jonathan Rhee Weymouth, MA > From: Tvak@AOL.COM > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:53:18 -0500 > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: Re: Flag-poling: a way of life, or...? > > > In a message dated 11/29/01 8:42:17 AM, jrhee@fai-arch.com writes: > > << He speaks at > length on how to properly manipulate (tweak) the pin in vertical pianos. >> > > Gee, maybe I missed that. Maybe I'm recalling the video. Somewhere in > there I seem to remember the caution to not "treat the tuning pin like a slot > machine" and never move the pin up or down. At any rate, I took that advice > to heart before coming across a tuner tuning a piano at the Chicago Cultural > Center. Clearly his movements were vertical! That prompted me to meet with > a local RPT and indeed his advice was to adopt some vertical motion after > completing the turning process. (ric's recent post described it best.) > > Can you give me a page number on the section describing vertical motion of > the pin? I'd love to read it. (or re-read it) > > Thanks > > Tom Sivak
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