This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I don't have a lot of S&S experience (in the Ozarks? Gimme a break!) but = I do tune a few. Tuned an "L" infantile horizontal piano today and got thinking while = wrestling with it. Pinblock quite tight (somewhat jumpy pins), string = movement resistance quite high, and the collarless pins VERY sensitive = to pressure in any direction--up pitch, down pitch, flagpoling, = whatever.=20 I find many notes very hard to pull in for sweet unisons. I was = personally taught by Randy Potter how to tune stable strings & pins but = found that moving the pin in teeny notches is very hard--too high, too = low, too high ...=20 If I got it just a hair over pitch and tried to settle everything with = back pressure on the hammer, it dropped way too much. Finally, with time = running out and getting a little desperate, I started dropping pitch = (about a 45 degree turn of the hammer) and tuning "from the bottom" with = a smooth steady pull while wanging the string pretty hard. Most of the = time I could stop right on pitch --even on strings I had spent WAY too = long trying to tune the "normal" way. But I worry about how stable they are as I could not "set" the pin in = the usual way. Is this pretty typical Steinway? What about stability in these circumstances? What hammer techniques do y'all use on the beasts? NOTE: While tuning, I was rehearsing a pretty negative inner dialog = about Steinway and all of their "genuine Steinway parts;" thinking how = expensive they are and how much they look like every other piano, etc. = BUT after I tuned it, I played it. Even for a small piano, what a = beautiful, sweet sound. Oh, the subtleties ...=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/a5/40/1d/06/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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