Glued back action flange

[David Chadwick]

Ron ,
Apparently when then tecknician was restringing the tenor and almost reached 
the tenor/treble plate strut he noticed that he had run out of hitch pins 
but still had tuning pin holes to fill. The owner was looking-on at the time 
and saw it. The teck then loosened a large section of pins and just moved to 
the corrected hitch and brought it up to tension with some pins having 
anywhere form one wrap to four wraps. As far as the untidy coils, I would 
think that a clean tight coil might help keep the becket from slipping. Kind 
of like a barrel knot in a fishing line. I'll post as photo. Sorry about the 
quality. The soundboard had separations from rib which he epoxy pushed in 
and the gap remains. That's more or less in the cut off area so I wasn't too 
concerned. The crown was positive but minimal. There is lots of glue squeeze 
around the bridge pins from that operation. Looks like epoxy also. The 
refinish was a Pianolac (sp) product. It is very cloudy with patches of 
dense cloudiness all over. All of the new parts are Renner with Abel 
Hammers. He added a second punching to the let off button to compensate for 
the new whippen. I really have not had the time to look into the action 
performance as my first appointment was to correct damper system errors. I 
did squeeze all of the beckets and tune the piano. I have discussed the 
possibility of starting from the beginning at the keys and systematically 
correcting action anomalies but as it stands now I've instructed him to play 
the heck out of it to see if the tuning I did will stay somewhat stable or 
if the string becket and coil windings fail. I would rather address the 
music wire situation before I work my way into the other areas.

David Chadwick
Las Vegas

----- Original Message ----- 
Subject: Re: Glued back action flange
>
>> Thanks Dale,
>> I have told him that the tuning stability will never be acheived.
>
> Why not? Sloppy coils, once settled, won't affect tuning stability at all. 
> Non functional cosmetics aside, if you can squeeze the beckets in tight 
> and tap the top of the coil down snug, the rest is gravy.
>
>
>>This guy want the Steinway he paid for but is very skeptical
>
> If sloppy beckets and a lousy regulation is the worst of the problems, he 
> got very lucky indeed. I'd suggest looking closer at the real stuff. Check 
> soundboard crown against string bearing, and look very closely at action 
> geometry and hammer bore distances. What you've mentioned is likely the 
> tip of the iceberg.
> Ron N
> 
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