Broken tuning pin removal

[Lawsonic Pianoforte Services]

Although I have had to use one once, and it was many years ago it was a
bit, much like a tuning hamer head but it had a reversalble cutting thread
in it, so as you rotate anti-clockwise it cuts a thread onto the outside of
thr pin until the tuning pin begins to move and so extracts. I'm sure one
of your many american piano supply companies has this.

Brian
> 
> 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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