Bent Tuning Pins

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In a message dated Tue, 6 Aug 2002 7:28:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, avery@ev1.net writes:

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> 
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> >I don't know what this guy does, but he actually, sometimes severely, 
> >bends tuning
> >pins just in the tuning process. Springing, or flagpoling a pin a little 
> >to find
> >the string equilibrium point is normal. Bending the pin past it's plastic
> >deformation limit is severely abnormal.
> >
> >Ron N
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> Ron,
> 
> How is this physically possible? It's not like they were 
> made out of some
> easily bendable material.
> 
> Avery

Avery, you are correct, they are not easily bent, but here in my area there is a "tooner" who does not turn the pin but virtually bends the pins to tune.  I have come in behind him on a couple of rebuilds and the pins really wobble as you remove them.

David Koelzer
Vintage Pianos
DFW