Tuning pin bushings

[Ron Nossaman]

>Before I try to get bushings from Australia, would anyone disagree with my 
>conclusion?
>
>Dave Bunch

I find that the holes in the webbing are often pretty sharp edged, and tend 
to shear the sides off of bushings as you try to drive them. I find a touch 
with a countersink to chamfer the edge of the holes will allow a bushing 
that is clearly too large to fit, to be driven in as the beveled edge 
guides and compresses it into the hole. I have no idea how they got the 
darned things to go in when the piano was built. Maybe they dried them down 
to zilch MC% before inserting them.

Ron N