Noise in the bass strings that won't tune away.

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Well, that was item one on the prep list.  Tighten string curves to 
and past the bridge with a light (note enough to damage the bridge 
termination) downward push too.  Actually massaging the wire with a 
rag was first than "piano voicing".

Think twisting hammer shanks.  All good oberservations.

Andrew

At 09:24 PM 7/27/2006, you wrote:
>The problem you are describing may well be that the strings needed 
>to be seated onto the bridge. Humidity and sometimes the temperature 
>changes a piano can go through just sitting in a single location 
>through the year but then you compound that this piano was also moved.
>
>Sometime you may get lucky and the process of pitch raising may add 
>enough tension the string may slide down on its own and especially 
>when the strings ar in very good shape. Not is the case as the 
>strings get dull/corrosive/ or worse rusted. All the good efforts in 
>the world can't tune that clean unision when the strings are just a 
>bit unsettled!
>
>I had such a frustrating time of things until I just set the strings 
>at the get-go before doing any pitch raised or tuning pianos that 
>have been moved and even my regular piano I bump them down at least 
>yearly for that solid unision.
>
>Gerald Arbeau
>www.arbeaupiano.com