On 10/29/2010 10:19 PM, John Formsma wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net > <mailto:rnossaman at cox.net>> wrote: > > > > The old Vose & Sons had what I always thought was a wonderful > feature - tapered tuning pins. Tap the loose ones lightly, and grip > happens! > Ron N > > > > Did those pins look different from modern pins? It has been some years > since seeing any Vose pianos. But I think they looked like any pin you'd > see nowadays. I'd guess I would have tried tapping some of them, though. > > -- > JF They look utterly harmless and anonymous, and just like anything else. The good part is the taper buried in the block where you can't see it. A little tap, and they go back in time to when they were a firm fit. I don't think anything short of pinblock disintegration would render these things ineffective. The rest of the piano will still be a wraith of faded substance, but the tuning pin system is the closest to immortal that I think I've seen. It strikes me as odd that, given the tendency of techs to "angst" over any measured discrepancy from pin to pin in a set, tapered pins aren't (?) available. Ron N
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