Hi Bill, I have restrung several of these GM Yamaha's with 2/0 pins, (remember Yamaha has metric pins) and they are standing up fine. These pianos were in a dry climate for a full year or more before repinning. Regards Roger At 11:46 PM 9/20/01 -0400, you wrote: >I'm about to restring a 1975(?) Yamaha C7E, you know one of the >recent japanese emigres. Evrything is orginal and after two VT >winters is holding together quite nicely. The pinblock grip during >the summer is solid, and in the dead of winter is "workably" loose. >(The board has a DC, but the room is too large to humidify.) Does >anyone have any experience with the expected life of such a block >restrung with 3/0 x 2-1/2" pins? I'd go for that rather than 4/0 x >2-3/8, the 3/0x2-1/2 size would spread out the impact of the o'sized >pins out through a longer hole. > >Does anyone have any long-term experience with these block (you now, >from the old country) especially when jumping up a pin size or two? > >Muchos Thanquos > >PS attached is a very informative look, broadcast over NPR recently, >into the eastern Islamic world, notably Afghanistan and Pakistan. >Both countries were created in the first years after WWII, the map >having been divided in such a way as to insure conflict as a >stabilising system. The partitioning of Palestine is another example >of this style of "nation-building" > >Bill Ballard RPT >NH Chapter, P.T.G. > >"Come on, a priest and a rabbi?! I think I've heard this one before" > ...........the Punjabi/Irish barkeep in "Keeping the Faith" >+++++++++++++++++++++ >
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