String Alignment

[Farrell]

I don't have tons of experience, but I certainly see and tune many pianos that have strings rubbing against adjacent tuning pins. I have never noticed any significant trouble with it with regard to tuning stability or string rendering. It looks sloppy to me though.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliot Dey Wilcox" <elliot31@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 9:33 AM
Subject: String Alignment


> Pianotech Forum members, 
> I'd like to restate my previous question regarding string alignment by
> making it more general. Deviation in alignment of tuning pins exists in
> some pianos. Recently, I have seen new grands with strings binding on
> adjacent tuning pins as they travel down to the agraffes. Does anyone
> have an opinion the challenge of equalizing string pressure while tuning
> such strings, strings breakage, etc.? And how much deviation in string
> alignment is too much regarding number of strings involved and sharpness
> of the binding angle?
> Thanks again. Elliot Wilcox, RPT, St. Paul, MN
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