Hi Terry, I find that with my lever, if my movement of the pin is quick and snappy, with a little influence of the shaft towards the pins, the 50 cent thing is cut to a managable 15 cents. Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 3:43 AM Subject: 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.
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