tine touching pickup (a winter thing?)

Started by jeff da rhode, November 26, 2008, 08:30:46 PM

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jeff da rhode

I sat down to play one day this week and notices one of my tines it too close to its pickup...odd but oh well.  Then I sat down again tonight and noticed another doing the same thing.

Now I did have some of them pretty close trying to get decent volume.

I haven't move the piano.

Any thoughts of this?

I was wondering if perhaps the winter air all dry and hot in the house actually caused the wood the shift enough to do this?

pianotuner steveo

Not exactly,but you may be on the right track. What MAY be happening is that the screw hole for the pickup mounting screw is possibly opening up a little from the extra dry air, causing the pickup to move by itself.

I've never seen this exact problem, but I see similar problems working on pianos every day.

If this is the case,you can try gluing a piece of wooden toothpick or match in the screw hole, giving the screw more wood to grip onto.
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BJT3

Good point Steve. Could it be that the screws holding the pickups were just a little loose?
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jeff da rhode

I don't think that is it, I tried to move the pickups with my fingers and they are quite tight.

Very odd.

Ben Bove

The pickups might be too close in general if that's happening on occasion.  You might want to pull back on them all ever-so-slightly.
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