[pianotech] freaks of nature

[Michael Magness]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Allen Wright <akwright at btopenworld.com>wrote:

> a boxful of either of these could ruin your day...   : )
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Many years ago I replaced a tuning pin (loose one) on a Jesse French spinet.
The customer had grown up playing that piano & when she married her parents
gave it to her, she now had children of her own taking lessons.
She recalled that note had never held it's tune, when i removed the pin,
only the first 1/2" had any threads the rest was as bald as the 2nd pin
above. It appeared to have been a "stamped" pin rather than a cut thread pin
and apparantly missed getting stamped all the way along it's length.
It apparantly also missed getting culled from the pinning process at the
factory!

Mike

-- 

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it.

    Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
608-786-4404
www.IFixPianos.com
email mike at ifixpianos.com
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