[pianotech] (no subject)

[Gerald Groot]

Didn't read the other posts about it, just got back a couple days ago from
hernia surgery, sifting through a zillion emails but, if it is a "newer"
piano, could it be that the becket wasn't stuffed far enough into the tuning
pin and so when you did this, it slid out some?  I've had this on plenty of
newer pianos where I just had to snip it off and put it in correctly...
Just a thought.

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Matthew Todd
Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 1:04 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] (no subject)

I also forgot to mention that after I the initial "snap" and me bringing the
note back up to pitch, I lowered the pitch a second time on some of the same
notes, and it did exactly the same thing (snap, pitch drop)

Matthew

On Sun Sep 5th, 2010 11:29 AM EDT Al Guecia/AlliedPianoCraft wrote:

>Sounds to me like the string rusted and stuck to the agraffe. Once it broke
loose it just dropped.
>
>Al -
>High Point, NC
>
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>From: <toddpianoworks at att.net>
>Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:12 AM
>To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Subject: [pianotech] (no subject)
>
>> I went to tune a Knabe grand yesterday.  On this piano, I decided to drop
pitch a little before bringing up to pitch.  When I lowered tension on the
monochords, I heard a loud snap followed by the pitch dropping drastically.
>> 
>> I have encountered an upright that did this and I was curious as to the
reason why.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> Matthew
>> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>> 
>>