[pianotech] Bridge pin locations help (image oops)

Mr. Mac's tune-repair at allegiance.tv
Thu Feb 3 19:50:04 MST 2011


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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