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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
------------------------------

If the dome shaped flange screws are a problem you can replace them with flat topped screws. I've done this recently. 

What makes you think the pin block is bowed?  Sometimes replacement #pinblocks are not properly shaped and they can be too thick in the middle pushing them below the stretcher but even then I'm not sure why that would cause tuning instability. I'd look for other reasons. 

I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

------------------------------
Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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I have a recording studio piano with a bowed pinblock. Most of the time it can get through a multi day session okay, but every once in a while it will go out enough to make me come back the same day. I tune it at least a couple times a week for the past two years for sessions. They have been wanting to replace it for years because of many other issues with the piano, but moving at a glacial pace. It's a Steinway B, 1908. Was wondering if some sort of repair other than replacing the block could be done. 

The bowed section is worse in the 5th octave. The hammer flange screws would get caught on the block in that section and I had to grind down the screws a bit for clearance. That is where the tuning is most unstable.

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Tim Michaels
pianotechtim@gmail.com
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