The two most common front pin dimensions are 3.5 and 3.7 mm. Most of the manufacturers outside of the US use 3.5 mm, which can be convenient when reconditioning a keyboard with damaged mortices. It often works out well to repair them using the 3.7 pins while resizing the key mortices to suit the bigger pin. Of course, if you're a genuine-part junkie then you'll have no option but to use the original size pins. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been totally hoodwinked by the local Steinway representative. A clause of my renewal contract for servicing the ABC pianos this year stated that we can only use genuine Steinway parts. The fact that I can source parts from the same company that Steinway use for the supply of their so-called genuine parts fell on deaf ears. So it looks very much like the ABC will be paying premium prices for genuine parts which are in some cases the identical part to our stock items in many cases. Just yesterday I was speaking with a local technician who sourced agraffes from the Steinway representative. The parts supplied were intended to have the thread form of 7/32" by 36 tpi. Many of you will have experienced some of the contemporary agraffes which are alleged to be of this thread size, but are undersized. When the local technician complained to the Steinway rep' about the undersized agraffes, the representative is alleged to have said that he had another source from which he could order the parts. What is particularly interesting about this alleged response from the local S&S rep' is that this was the same person who was complaining ad nauseam to the ABC about me using non-genuine parts when rebuilding Steinway pianos. Do I detect something of a double standard here? There's no doubt in my mind as to the lack of credibility of the genuine parts argument, unless of course you happen to be on the Steinway gravy train. Ron O. >Do you mean .146"? > >That's what I've found unless rebuilt with something bigger.... > Not sure of really old ones. > >Paul > > >Richard <richard.ucci at att.net> >Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org > >05/14/2009 04:05 PM >Please respond to >pianotech at ptg.org > >To >"pianotech at ptg.org" <pianotech at ptg.org> >cc >Subject >[pianotech] Key pins > > > > > >Are Steinway grand front rail pins always .046? > >Sent from my iPhone -- OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY Grand Piano Manufacturers _______________________ Web http://overspianos.com.au mailto:ron at overspianos.com.au _______________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090515/c7b962b4/attachment.htm>
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