case parts and a pin

[Keith McGavern]

I tried your email address, Donald.
Couldn't get through.
The following post should help you on your broken tuning pin.

Keith A. McGavern
kam544@ionet.net
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA

>Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:38:19 -0800
>From: Larry Gardner <larryg@csufresno.edu>
>Subject: Re: Tuners--Broken Pins
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>...Last year, on a brand new Kawai upright, I just started to give this
>bass string a nudge (well, I think it was 20¢ low), and I thought the
>string broke.  Then I looked and the pin had broken off leaving about a
>1/4" sticking out.  My advice is, don't mess around, get the pin
>extractor tip from pianotech with reverse threads.  It worked great.
>
>Larry Gardner, RPT
>Fresno CA
>