Hi Marshall, Anything's possible in a school setting. If the pin had been wobbly for a while, it could have deformed the hole. You can repair the hole by gluing floss or silk cord in place and repining with a new flange; the birdseye can be sort of replaced with a section of round toothpick flattened and glued on one side and graphited (before anybody flames me, these are just put forward as temporary, quick-and-dirty repairs while you find the parts needed :-/ If you can't get parts that fit, you can drill a hole and install the spoon in #88 as suggested. Kerry Kean www.ohiopianotuner.com <http://www.ohiopianotuner.com/> _____ From: Marshall Gisondi [mailto:pianotune05 at hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 5:54 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] wurlitzer parts Hi John, That was my thinking as well, borrow c88s wippen. I want to be certain the spoon goes in the same direction. Have you guys ever had this occur, pushing in the center pin and the piece of th e birds eye breaks? I'm curious too how would a birds eye hole become slightly elongated or out of shape on the outer edges? On a different piano, a school piano, I had to put in a huge center pin to make it hold, but still isn't tight like it should be in the birds eye. I'm still awaiting a response from the schol to see if they have pianos I can pull parts from. If they do not, any ideas on where to obtain action parts for Wurlitzer school pinaos woudl be great. Thanks Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> Vancouver, WA _____ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. Get it <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/> now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100222/e2a098ba/attachment.htm>
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