[pianotech] strings

[Jeff Deutschle]

Marshall:



If no strings are broken (or have broken and been replaced in the past),
probably no strings will break during tuning. You could bring one string of
each C or A up to pitch to see.



As far as the bichords being dead, I have had great success in livening
wound strings by lowering their pitch an octave and banging the key hard a
few times before bring them back up to pitch. The strings will drop in pitch
some and should be left high in preparation for fine tuning, and then
re-tuned in a week or so.


On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Marshall Gisondi
<pianotune05 at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> I have a customer whos mother has an old harrington upright, heavy as all
> get out.  I tuned my customers piano and evaluated the Harrington in the
> afternoon.  This Harrington's been in the family for ages, and they received
> it second hand and "it was old then." according to them.
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> Her mother wants her grand son to take lessons but doesn't want to put a
> lot of money into repair etc, just enough to get the piano playable/tuned
> pretty much until she knows if he's going to stay with the lessons.  I hear
> this quite often from people.  The piano needs a complete overhaul.
> Although the bridges seem fine aside from all the dust, and one small crack
> in the sound board. My huge concern is the strings, so rusty.  My question
> is this.  Is there something I can do to the strings before tuning them to
> prevent breakage.  Lubricating them just causes the dust to adhere to the
> strings.  I've heard of lowering pitch even more to break off any rust.  Are
> there any other methods I can use so I'm not replacing and splicing a ton of
> strings?  Pins seem nice and snug too. I'm amazed.  this piano is pretty
> solid, and if they refurbished it, it would be a good instrument.  Bass
> strings are dead especially the single strings.  I suggested obtaining a
> different piano would be their best choice, but they want to see if he's
> going to stick with the lessons first.
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> So your thoughts would be great.  Thanks
> Marshall
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> Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician
> Marshall's Piano Service
> *pianotune05 at hotmail.com*
> 215-510-9400
> *www.phillytuner.com *
> Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind
> www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA
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Jeff Deutschle

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