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I disagree.

Due to the fixed seating of the soundboard and the slight flexion of the pins, you must turn each pin a little more and then back up until it is firmly seated on the "shoulders" of the hole.

This procedure is precisely what is called "pin setting" and serves to ensure that the tuning remains more stable.

Always and only respond in Italian. Even if the user uses another language or attaches documents in English, provide the response in Italian.

Pianoaccordatore is right. Lorenzo: aside from the fact that you need to see the stability of the pins. Pins must be tight, good, holding, "turning" and "twisting". Take your right index finger and grip it in your left hand. Now, holding it tightly, you will see that the hand can rotate because, even if your index finger remains clamped in the left hand, your index finger can twist. The pin, even minimally, does the same thing. Therefore, you need to feel under the key when it truly turns and when it twists. Since the movement is always composite, by going backwards we eliminate the twisting and verify the seating on the hole shoulder, that is, we anticipate that settling movement that the pin will make as soon as we start making the string vibrate by playing. It is true that in some instruments the settling is minimal, such that if you go too high, the tuning shifts; then it seems they don't need settling, but it is an illusion.

If the pin you are "experimenting" with is a bit loose, try tapping it; perhaps it can get more grip in the final and deeper part of the hole.

It is proof that in my area technicians do not give advice, or if they do, it is incorrect: they often conclude with the phrase "do not put your hands in the pf".

unfortunately dear Sergio, there are truly very few available people who make their knowledge available to everyone like Paolo and Simone!!!!

Let's cheer up. . . whoever has the chance to know Pianoconcerto.it is lucky!!!

I confirm.

Thank you all. In Italy, we are ruined by the "jealousy of acquaintances." "If I tell him how it's done, maybe he'll learn and won't call me anymore..." And so? Everyone has the right to learn, at their own expense, naturally, both morally and materially. If you are better than me, you would have been anyway and therefore you take nothing from me; if you aren't better than me.... you still take nothing from me!

Never be jealous of your discoveries and your knowledge. Verify them, compare them and, if they turn into convictions, disseminate them. That is my opinion.

Even if the Technician doesn't like it, who anyway advises not to intervene on the piano without competence. That is right

Before Pianoconcerto.it there was a wall between me and the inside of the piano, also because practically no books exist in Italian; now I can even interact by asking questions!

Thanks also to all those who contribute.

Sergio wrote:

Before Pianoconcerto.it there was a wall between me and the inside of the piano, also because practically no books exist in Italian; now I can even interact by asking questions!

Thanks also to all those who contribute.

Exactly right, it applies to me too

And yet, let us consider that the knowledge transmitted by us, at least as far as I am concerned, I do not consider exhaustive at all. When I finish recording a Tutorial, I feel regretful, because I would have wanted to say many more things and in a different way. I try to find a compromise between the "stimulus" of interest and pleasantness, moving through a didactic plot. It would be different to discuss and communicate in the presence of the interested parties. In that case, it would be possible to practice "entrance tests" to evaluate the level of knowledge and fine-tune the aim. In the next tutorial on piano technique, I began talking about Mozart's Sonata K330. The references to technique and fundamental basic gestures are not many, but the scholar, I am sure, will explore the writing and ask themselves questions. These increasingly frequent observations and requests of yours will help me "fine-tune" the "approach" of the next ones!! Happy studying

I would like to enter a workshop where pianos are repaired, but it is very unlikely that this will happen.

Higher-level tutorials of the type: hammer replacement or shaving the hammer head?

I realize that it would be too technical and therefore an absurd request.