Center Pin

[John Delacour]

At 16:45 -0700 14/8/08, Matthew Todd wrote:

>What is the best way to hold a center pin while you get it started 
>to push it through the hole?

With the nippers.  I have done hundreds of thosands of centres and 
never needed anything else.

I have published a rough guide here:

<http://pianomaker.co.uk/technical/centring/>

it should be possible to repin a set of 88 centres in less than 90 
minutes including set-up time.

JD