Keith: Have you checked the bridge pin for looseness? I'd bet that's more of the problem. dp On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Mr. Mac's <tune-repair at allegiance.tv> wrote: > List, > > I decided I would share a situation I have had > to live with for several years. > > I regularly tune a 2001 Steinway Concert Grand that has > a definite issue with the location of the bridge pins. > (see image) > > 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 ) > > Does anyone have a surefire method to correct this issue > without a tear down? (larger pic available if needed) > > Sincerely, > > Keith McGavern, RPT > pianostuff.kamcam.com -- David M. Porritt, RPT 3024 County Road 2134 Caddo Mills, TX 75135-6722 Phone 903-269-3570 dmporritt at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110204/759a27d5/attachment.htm>
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