The one "Unique" thing, I noticed, s the really course/deep threads! Wow! that's really a new one on me! I've seen this kind of pin on one other piano. I believe it was a Broadwood straight strung grand from about 1885. There were several pins that wouldn't hold, so I was going to put in larger pins. But when I took out this "screws" pin, I showed the customer the problem, and told that unless she was willing to spend the money for a new pin block, etc. the piano could not be tuned. That's the last I heard from her, although I later learned she gave it to a friend, who was desperately trying to find someone to fix it. I think it more or less made the rounds in St. Louis. Wim -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 6:16 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Geo Brodbent Tuning Pins Dave Smith said: "encountered a Geo Broadbent straight-strung grand piano ith tuning pins as shown. Piano is over 100 years old. Although the pin hown is a bit chewed up from some previous tech (not this one) using vise rips, it it pretty close to the other undamaged ones still in the piano. o tuning lever tip I have seen will fit this, as the pin is rectangular in hape, .2?x.26? roughly. The pins are threaded into the block with a pretty oarse thread. oes anyone know where to find a hammer tip that would fit this type pin? he piano was moved here from South Africa, where apparently the techs had o trouble tuning it :} lso the piano is sitting at about 100c flat to A440, but I was assuming it as designed to be tuned at A415 anyway. Any thoughts on this also? Thanks" ave, our Assumption that the piano should be tuned at 415 is not a good one. IF here are structural issues then it needs to be repaired and tuned to it's riginal designed pitch. Most pianos of 100-150 years of age were designed o be tuned to at least 435. If it were German, probably 450 would be what hey designed it to be tuned to. (Check Helmholz, in the back Glossary, tc.<G>) s for a tuning tip to fit it? Jeez, I suspect you've never run into an oval" tuning pin!<G> Check Schaff. Tips readily available. All of my atalogues are at another site, at the moment, so I can't look it up for umbers, etc. he "oblong Tip" and a "tip adaper" will suffice. Even though, in "the day" double headed head/tip configuration was used for efficient tuning of any iano that had these type tuning pins. The one "Unique" thing, I noticed, s the really course/deep threads! Wow! that's really a new one on me! hanks for sharing. egards, oe oe Garrett, R.P.T. aptain of the Tool Police quares R I -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110923/29680d62/attachment.htm>
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