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Thanks for your advice, it's much appreciated as I am the pianist and not an expert tuner. I have just one more question. I understand now why the tuning might be 'jumpy' to execute but despite this the tuner does eventually manage to get it very well tuned when he visits. Then after a couple of day...

Are you saying that the difficulty with 'stiff' tuning is due to the strings not moving in and out from the pin smoothly, and not because the pins are 'stiff' in the block? Then of course I still have the problem with the piano not staying in tune - could that also be an issue other then the pins sl...

We've had the piano for 22 years, we first noticed it not holding its tune about 5 years ago, since then it's got worse so now it's out of tune again after a couple of days, and it's across the entire range of notes. The present tuner has only been a couple of times, but everyone who has tuned it ha...

The piano was built in 1898. It had a complete rebuild including restringing in 1997 so it's probable that it had oversize pins fitted although I've no way of knowing for sure. Until I spoke to our tuner this morning, the only issue I was aware of is that it doesn't stay in tune for long at all (our...

I have a Steinway model B from 1898. During the last year it's been going out of tune only days after tuning (so it's reasonable to assume that the tuning pins are not holding well), and meanwhile our tuner reports that it's difficult to tune because the tuning pins are not moving smoothly. So in on...

It's not at the top! All I'm seeing there (in the spot shown in your screen grab) is "post reply".

I'm a new member and I want to post a new topic. FAQs says 'click on "New topic" but where the hell is it? I've searched and searched everywhere and nowhere on this site can I find "New topic". I could only find "Reply to topic" which is what I've done here.