This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Terry, An other (less tiring) solution is to put pressure on the tuning lever at the edge of the move and play the note till it goes exactly where you want, and the pin eventually have moved a very tiny little bit.but well certainly the pitch easely goes to high first. Staying just under the moment where the friction of the pressure bar is overridden gives a feel for the pin "give" ,so less guess and less move, sometime less string breaking , etc.. I agree with the large upraise which is necessary to really move up on some pianos , but I try to avoid it whenever possible. Best Isaac -----Message d'origine----- De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de Farrell Envoyé : dimanche 22 août 2004 11:44 À : Pianotech Objet : Re: Sweet Betsy from... The S&S 1098 (45-inch studio) is well known to have excessively tight tuning pins. Also the plate has no bushings, which pushes the torque-inducing string coil 3/8 to 1/2-inch above the pinblock. So when you go to try and make a small pitch adjustment with your tuning lever, instead of the pin rotating in the block, you tend to simply have the pin bend over (like a flagpole with a big flag in the wind). The of course when you release your lever after you have tried to move the pin, it simply goes back to the original pitch. I have found on these pianos that often, in order to have the pitch of the string settle just one cent higher, you have to make the pitch raise 20 to 50 cents! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: Clyde Allen To: Pianotech Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 1:38 AM Subject: Re: Sweet Betsy from... Hello Terry, What does it mean..."1098-type flagpoling...". Thanks, Clyde Allen Silver Spring, MD Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: Very stable piano. Amazed me. I remember when I tuned it that I was concerned whether the tuning would last long enough for me to cash the check because the tuning pins are very tight and they did the 1098-type flagpoling. But I guess I did something right. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3f/5e/74/0f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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