Tuning Pin Length?

[Ron Nossaman]

>That's silly Ron, and misses the point. I am going to remove all the keys 
>from each rebuild I do in the future to prevent future pinblock failure - 
>because every piano that I have replaced a pinblock on had KEYS! THAT has 
>got to be it!
>
>Terry Farrell

Ah, but how do you know that those keys aren't doing something between the 
legs and pinblock that protects the block from even faster deterioration? 
You might be making it worse.

Ron N