Cracked Pin Block?

Z! Reinhardt diskladame@provide.net
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 21:37:18 -0500


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You know you may very well have a cracked pinblock when as you drive in =
a loose pin, a neat row of near-by pins spontaneously turn =
counter-clockwise.  There will be a definite pattern to the strings that =
slipped the most as you play each note listening to what had once been =
unisons ......

Z! Reinhardt  RPT
Ann Arbor  MI
diskladame@provide.net
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: William R. Monroe=20
  To: Pianotech=20
  Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 7:11 PM
  Subject: Cracked Pin Block?


  Hi all,

  I tuned a 1900 Kroeger "Upright Grand" [giggle] today.  Very loose =
tuning pins.  Tried tapping to see if that had any effect.  Helped on a =
couple.  Then - Ooops, where'd you go?  I tapped one in and it sunk =
nearly to the winding on the pin.  And, the string required probably a =
full turn or more to bring it back up to pitch (this was in the tenor).  =
Again, many loose pins in this "instrument", and am curious what you all =
would think the culprit is.  Also, if it were a cracked pinblock, how =
would you know for certain?

  Thanks,

  William R. Monroe
  PTG Associate
  Salt Lake City, UT

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