Well, I guess I'm just not so much of an expert on string angles through the agraffe up and to the pin. After the agraffe, the string rides along a curve of understring felt and then to the pins. It is a bit of an angle, but does not strike me as being unusual (I think!). Sounds to me from Newtons comments and my observations that a combination of 60 year old bent string, rust, paint, a tad of an angle have all conspired to indicate that it is simply time to restring and nothing short of that is going to be a proper fix. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Newell" <gnewell@ameritech.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 9:44 PM Subject: Re: Painted String Rendering > Definitely a good reason to restring. What is the string angle from capo or > agraffe to that cast bar before the tuning pins like? On my current project I > can only imagine from the string angle present that this thing must have been a > bear to tune. I will be altering it somewhat. Not too drastic but I do hope to > make it easy to tune even after the strings aren't quite as fresh as when I > finish. Food for thought. > > Greg > > Farrell wrote: > > > I tuned a 1940s Baldwin L today. It has always been a nasty piano to tune. > > Today was no exception. Especially in the upper tenor. You pull up a bit, no > > change in pitch, pull a bit more, no change, pull a bit more and BOING you > > are 20 cents sharp. Lube the heck out of the felt and agraffe with Protek. > > No change. After staring at it a while I realized that some clown had pained > > the plate and of course painted the agraffes. The felt areas and other > > string areas with no plate below were taped off, but all the string segments > > with plate below were painted gold. So now after a few decades of pulling > > the strings a little tighter each time, I suspect we now have the painted > > section inside the agraffe - and I think that is causing the rendering > > problem. Does this make sense? Strings have a fair bit of corrosion on them > > also. I had never run into such a stubborn case like this. > > > > Sounds like we have a good reason to restring. Yes? > > > > Terry Farrell > > -- > Greg Newell > mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net > >
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