They just made the tuning pin field too crowded in that area, sometimes it will be poor drilling. The problem then is that it becomes impossible to get the tension across all segments uniform, as the extra friction points effectively introduce additional segments. Try to locate the extra friction points, most often it is rubbing a lower tuning pin on the adjacent note. Put your hammer on that pin and slightly bump it to relieve the tension on the string you are trying to set. A couple iterations will usually get it pretty close. Of course you have to go back and recheck the string on the pin you slightly bumped. In the end, you may have to settle for a little out of tuneness. Just consider it is a (choose one): spo (stupid piano object), pso (piano shaped object), pos (piece of stupid-engineering). Dean Dean W May (812) 235-5272 PianoRebuilders.com (888) DEAN-MAY Terre Haute IN 47802 -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 12:01 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Weird....strings On 2/4/2011 9:58 PM, J. W. Stein wrote: > I wonder if the looping around 2 hitchpins is a manufacturer's fault, > or something has just gone awry. It's not the hitches. It's the lousy spacing of the tuning pins so that strings snake around a couple of them between tuning pin and pressure bar, making it impossible to stabilize these strings. Kimballs are downright famous for it, but you'll see it in some Baldwin verticals too, to a lesser degree. Euthanasia is the only cure I know. I recommend explosives, or refer them to a tuner you don't like. Ron N
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