False Beats / Loose pins

[Ric Brekne]

David

There was like alllll kinds of loose pins on this piano. And as I said.. 
I run into this kind of thing all the time.  I'm sure had I destrung 
this piano I could have pulled at least half the pins out with my 
fingers... wobbled a few in their holes... and the rest would have 
willingly followed a pair of polished needlenosed :)

The problem is that I find way too many exceptions to this <<rule>>. 

Cheers
RicB


Wouldn't you think was the exception not the rule?   A false beat  from 
a loose bridge pin is only going to happen if the pin is moving and 
creating two speaking lengths in the string...I think...possibly your 
big bridge pin was loose but not moving?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California