[pianotech] Oversized tuning pins

[Scott Helms, RPT]

I have been told that the reason restrung pianos have this issue is that
whoever restrung it didn't ream the holes in the pinblock before driving
in the new pins. Does anybody know if that's true? Just curious.

Scott
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Scott A. Helms, Registered Piano Technician
480-818-3871
www.helmsmusic.net






> Actually, I had a situation like this 6 or 7 years ago on a restrung
> Steinway O that was completely untunable. I did the basically same thing
> except I lowered tension, popped out the beckets and backed all the pins
> out with a drill. Then replaced the beckets and drove the pins down to
> their original height. They all tuned very nicely afterwards and it only
> took about 4 hours total. Of course there was a follow up tuning later
> in the week....
>
> --Dave
>   New Orleans
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> David Ilvedson wrote:
>> Well, that has never worked for me...but then I didn't do it for 7
>> hours!   Jeez...
>>
>> David Ilvedson, RPT
>> Pacifica, CA  94044
>>
>> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>> From: "Leslie Bartlett" <l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: pianotech at ptg.org
>> Received: 11/27/2009 7:21:45 PM
>> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Oversized tuning pins
>>
>>
>>> I have a church client which (who?) purchased a 9-foot Shigeru, and two
>>> Estonias.  One of the Estonias was so bad that every pin popped, and I
>>> finally told them it was un-tunable. Short story....  I told them I
>>> thought
>>> I could fix it, so called the guys from whom they got it and was to
>>> have a
>>> shot. Seven hours later jerking pins back and forth, there were only
>>> about
>>> two pins popping and the rest just quite tight.
>>> les Bartlett Piano Service
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