Adjusting plate suspension bolts?

Albert Lord lordpiano at gmail.com
Fri Oct 19 17:42:56 MDT 2007


Has anyone determined how much the pitch changes for a given change in
bearing?
How does the pitch change vary across the compass?

Albert.


On 10/18/07, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Ron is right, you can do a few at a time.  Going up forces you to do more
> than one at a time because you are raising the socket screws against the
> plate whose stiffness will provide resistance to raising the screw.  Going
> down you can lower each screw as you go by, say, 1/4 turn or whatever and
> the plate will flex only when you tighten down the acorn nuts.  As Ron
> said,
> just do it incrementally.
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos at comcast.net
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
> Behalf
> Of jimialeggio5 at comcast.net
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 9:04 AM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Adjusting plate suspension bolts?
>
> Up... But since the point of this piano is to experiment and see "what
> happens if"...
> I'll play with down as well.
>
> Jim I
>
> >Are you going up or down?
>
> >David Love
>
>
>
>
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