Actual piano question: Pin strength and chipboard Yamahas

[Ron Nossaman]

>Not that simple, you need the right balance between, tensile strength and 
>rigidity.   Now the trick is to get two engineers to agree.  Once the pin 
>gets in the field, we tech's bitch that there is too much flex.
>Oh well, back to the drawing board.
>Roger

It's not the pins that are the problem anyway. They're just putting them in 
too bloody tight. We used to have the same problems with new Kimballs for 
the same reason.

Every year for the last five years or so, the Yamaha pinning seems to get 
tighter. Why are they doing this? The Thomaston products are now very 
difficult to tune, and I battled a new U3 last week that was virtually 
untunable for this reason.

Ron N