[pianotech] Joe Garrett's recipe for TP bushings

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sat Dec 6 18:00:21 PST 2008


> Hi Lis
> I've recently been tuning a Yamaha C3, fairly old, and some previous
> tuners have replaced broken treble strings. The tuning pin bushings seem
> to have risen up, proud of the plate, on these pins only, by about
> 3mm.-4mm.
> What could be the cause of this, and should I be concerned.
> Bruce Browning
> The Piano Tuner.

The pins were cranked back to wind the strings directly on the 
pin, and the bushing followed them up. The worst has already 
happened, so don't worry about it.
Ron N



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