Tom, Schaff sells special thin wall tuning tips for this purpose. See items 14H and 14i on page 30 of their catalogue. I think most supply houses carry them. Terry Beckingham At 12:19 PM 11/21/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Dear list, > The other day I "ran into" a Wurlitzer console which had it`s top 2 > tuning pins, at the 1st tri-chord unison, too close together. When I put > the tuning lever tip on either of the top 2 pins the other tip would > move. So, I need to return as soon as possible to tuning a clean > unison. As it was, I roughly calculated how much the strings were moving > once I removed the tuning hammer and moved the pin that amount sharp to > compensate, but the unison is far from satisfactory. The owner mentioned > that no other tuners had ever mentioned this, leaving me to wonder what I > was missing. I`ve compared all my APSCO, Schaff, and Hale tips and they > are a pretty much the same outside dimensions. > I am anxious to please w/o asking the customer to recall the names > of my competition. > My plan, is to take a #2 tip which will not slide as far down the pin > as the #3`s, which I normally use, and grind down the outside as much as > necessary to allow it to fit on these pins w/o interfering with > the adjacent pin. > Any suggestions or better ideas? >thanks, >Tom Carpenter >Berthoud, Co >
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