This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I indicated in my original post that several times this tuning and on = previous tunings I have applied a liberal dose of Protek to the string, = the felt, the agraffe - all to no avail (maybe worked a little less bad, = but a bad problem still existed - I spent 3 hours tuning that monster = that was only about 4 cents flat - of course that included crawling = around looking for buzzes, pondering the sticky string thing, and = afterward listening to this woman rip through a bunch of Rachmananof = (sp?) (the whole process was not painful - even 60-year-old tubby bass = strings don't sound all that bad when you hit them just right and in the = right order - and my upper tenor section seemed to hold it's tune!). =20 Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Marcel Carey=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 11:03 PM Subject: RE: Painted String Rendering Terry, I remember someone telling this list that the culprit could very well = be friction between the strings and it's underfelt. I had a Heintzman = that was excatly like what you described and I cured it with a somewhat = generous application of protek on the underfelt. Try it out and let us know. Marcel Carey -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On = Behalf Of Farrell Sent: 17 janvier, 2002 17:30 To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Painted String Rendering I tuned a 1940s Baldwin L today. It has always been a nasty piano to = tune. Sounds like we have a good reason to restring. Yes? If the customer can afford it GO FOR IT ! Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b5/f7/67/ef/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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