[pianotech] freaks of nature

[bppiano at aol.com]

I recently had similar experience while destringing a Kurtamann grand.  While taking the old pins out of the block, one pin would turn but not unscrew.  
Finally, I had to get a vice grip around it and pull it out as I turned.  When it came out I was surprised to see absoloutely no threads!!!

I've never heard of anything like that.  Any one?

Bruce Pennington






-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Magness <ifixpiano at gmail.com>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Mon, Jul 26, 2010 3:35 pm
Subject: Re: [pianotech] freaks of nature





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...   : )















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

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Michael Magness
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