Tuning Pins

[Dick Beaton]

All again....
Well just cant help it....Why do they call that thing in your hand a TUNING
HAMMER?
Dick MT
-----Original Message-----
From: JIMRPT@AOL.COM <JIMRPT@AOL.COM>
To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Tuning Pins


>
>In a message dated 11/12/1999 5:22:52 PM, you wrote:
>
><<"I just was suprised that the issue came up.. and that there were several
>of you all out there that endorse this proceedure.">>
>
>Well you can add one more to this "several" endorsing tapping pins.  Of
>course the individual situation has to be evaluated, i.e. Is there enough
>height of coil above plate to do so?  Will tapping this particular pin
>present any undue problems with adjacent pins?  Will tapping this pin cause
>undue strain in bearing angles? and a few more that I can't think of right
>now. Pin tapping is an appropiate first response to an ocassional loose
pin,
>, but perhaps not the only one.  To indicate otherwise is unsupportable.
Pin
>tapping, as every other operation on pianos, can and has been overdone,
>poorly done, and done inappropiately.  To see techs using pin tapping is
not
>surprising or in the least upsetting in any way, in my opinion.
>Jim Bryant (FL)
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