Aha! was flat facts

[ilex cameron ross]

I feel ya on that, Avery - the shop I work for now carries the new Pearl
Rivers.
Bain. Of. My. Existence.
-ilex

}-----Original Message-----
}From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
}Behalf Of Avery Todd
}Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:29 PM
}To: Pianotech
}Subject: Re: Aha! was flat facts
}
}
}IMHO, there is no way on God's green earth that the tuning pins I "tried"
}to turn
}on 4 Pearl River verticals a couple of weeks ago are going to be turned
}backwards
}with the mere tension on the wire compared to the tension inside
}the block!
}No way! :-)
}I hurt and was wishing for an impact hammer when I got through!
}
}Avery
}
}
}>>I still go with turning pins, though. There is a natural,
}sustained tension
}>>on the pin from the string that would love to turn the thing
}>>counter-clockwise. Earth tremors, children thudding across the
}floor, sonic
}>>booms, moving the piano, and hovering ufo's would all put
}vibration into the
}>>system, however briefly, and the pin could jiggle just a a third
}of a skinny
}>>hair each time. But over the years ...
}>
}>Is that a guess, a supposition, or an opinion? Just asking, since
}the same
}>rules ought to apply to us all.
}>Ron N
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