Arnold.Schmidt@BBS.delta.com wrote: > But what is a Scortino > hand-held? I am looking for something to possibly use while the pin is > still in the piano, as opposed to winding the coil on a different pin, > then putting it on the pin in the piano. I have a device to use to wind > a coil on a pin not in a pinblock. Arnold, the Scortino Hand Held Coil Maker is stock #16451, page 25 of the APSCO (American Piano Supply) catalog. I prefer winding the coil on a dummy pin and transfering it to the piano for two reasons. 1. You only have to back the tuning pin 1/2 turn to install it rather than the 2-1/2 turns necessary to wind the coil in the piano. If the pins are not as tight as they should be, you run a good chance of making them considerably looser. 2. A hand-held coiler will allow you to hold tension on the string while you're winding the second coil so the string doesn't jump off the hitch pin! (I hate walking around the piano to put a vise grip on the hitch.) If you put your dummy pin in a vice, and cut down through the top of it to the becket hole using a hack saw with two blades side by side, You can lift the completed coil straight up after winding it. -- Warren D. Fisher fish@communique.net Registered Piano Technician Piano Technicians Guild New Orleans Chapter 701
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