David, Let me rephrase my false beat comment. What I probably should have said was: I am unable to sync up the unison. The PitchLock helps to reduce that audible difference. Keith On Feb 3, 2011, at 8:40 PM, David Love wrote: > Do you mean because of the non uniform speaking lengths? Did the pitchlock > help? I'd be curious next time you are there if you might try attaching a > vise-grips to one of the bridge pins in such a way that it doesn't make any > noise (rear bridge pin is ok) and see if the false beats still occur. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf > Of Mr. Mac's > Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 5:32 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: [pianotech] Bridge pin locations help (image oops) > > Throughout this piano there are varying degrees of > misplacement of the bridge pins, however the one I focused on > is by far the worst offender and produces false beats beyond belief, > hence I added the PitchLock String Coupler to reduce the false beats > existent. > ( http://www.pitchlock.com )
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