Don- Careful as you go. A harpsichord with tapered pins may have a rather lightweight wrestplank. I saw a historically designed instrument in which the tapered pins had been replaced with zither pins, splitting the 4' section of the wrestplank. Ed S. ----- Original Message ----- From: Donald McKechnie To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 5:36 PM Subject: [CAUT] Wrest pins Hi Gerry, I have tried email and phoning him a number of times. Willard is indeed a recluse. The most important reason I want the pins Willard uses is the threads. They simply hold better than the smooth, tapered pins that Instrument Workshop sells. We have a nice harpsichord here at IC that was made by a local amateur builder. The smooth pins do not hold very well on this instrument. I want to replace the whole set. Two 8' choirs and a 4'. There are other methods I might be able to use to make the current set hold but I would rather replace. Thanks, Don Donald McKechnie Piano Technician Ithaca College dmckech at ithaca.edu 607.274.3908 From: G Cousins <cousins_gerry at msn.com> Date: October 8, 2009 3:33:30 PM EDT To: CAUT <caut at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Wrest pins Reply-To: caut at ptg.org Martin is a wonderful craftsman and a bit of a recluse. He rarely responds to email, phone or otehr communications. I did get to speak to him but only by knocking on his shop door until he answered it. I believe he gets his pins from europe though I not certain. You just have to bee persistent and patient and keep trying until you get through. I do have a few here (spares) but not many. I got them during my previous visit. You could also get them from Instrument Workshop and drill the becket holes....(Just a thought) Gerry C West Chester University of PA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20091008/d143e701/attachment.htm>
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