Broken tuning pin removal

Ted Simmons ted@brevard.net
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 09:46:00 -0500


While tuning a spinet last week a tuning pin broke at the becket hole
leaving most of the pin exposed.  I thought it would be a simple task to
turn the pin out of the hole and hammer in a new one, but such was not the
case.  The tuning pins on this piano are super tight and I couldn't budge
the broken pin with vise grips.  So I sawed the becket deeper and tried a
big screwdriver with no success.  Can anyone suggest a tool or a method
that will get this tuning pin out?

Ted Simmons
Merritt Island, FL




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