A new technique for easing tight tuning pins

[Richard Brekne]

Grin... Sounds like you came accross an example of the infamous "Etude" make. Or
perhaps more then one russian make has this problem. The Etude was sold here in
Norway for just a couple years before even the dealers found out this was a bad
investment.

Richard Brekne
I.C.P.T.G.  N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway

"Paul S. Larudee" wrote:

> I tried this technique on some pins on a MOCKBA (Moskow) piano in Cuba
> last February.  The pins were so tight and the quality of the pin metal
> so poor that they were shearing off at the becket as they were tuned.
> Couldn't even get them out with a pin extractor, so I tried the heating
> method.  The only way I got results was to get them hot enough to weaken
> (break) the wire.  In this case it was worth it when nothing else
> worked, but I found that the wire, being closer to the source of heat
> application, got hotter than the other end of the pin, in the block.  If
> the technique is at all effective on the pins, I would be concerned
> about weakening the wire.
>
> Paul S. Larudee, RPT
> Richmond, CA