Hi, Les. Give Zuckermann Harpsichords a try. They use small, oblong headed tuning pins in their harpsichords. They are roughly the same size as zither pins, such as you find in auto-harps (and zithers), except the pins have the oblong heads. They carry a nice little "T" wrench cast in iron with a hook on the top for making hitchpin ties. I'll bet it's just the ticket. You might fax a xerox of one of the tuning pins if that is possible. Their phone number is 860/535-1715 or email them at: <http://zhi.net> >>> Leslie W Bartlett <lesbart@juno.com> 05/25 5:11 PM >>> For Britishers, mostly. I have acquired an Allison piano, British, with flattened tuning pins, rather than the four cornered pins of now-a-days. Schaff has a tool, supposedly for these pins, but when applied, it was far to big. So, customer got out his sledge hammer and flattened it a bit. Better, but still too much. So he silver-soldered it, and now I have something that "sort of" works. But it's still too big, and too sloppy. I'm looking for a smaller version of the one in the Schaff catalog. Anyone able to help? les bartlet houston ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]
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