> Hey Mark, > > I keep on learning. To wit, what are "reverse-grip" tuning pins and where > does one find them? And presumably by "reverse direction" you mean with (not > against) the string pull. > > Thanks for sharing your method. > > Alan They're cut thread pins, like Denro. Salesmen who were trying to make the other guy's pianos (using these pins) look bad would wrap a pin in a silk scarf and show how it would turn easily one direction and not in the reverse. The pitch was that these evil pins had *teeth* that would tear up the block in the competitor's product. The guys who's pianos had these pins used the same demo, illustrating how these pins resisted turning backward, and would therefor hold a tuning longer without "slipping". Neither happened in actual pianos, of course, and the *teeth* were just an incidental artifact of the thread cutting. They weren't planned at all, but just came with the process. Is it even possible to buy pressed or rolled thread pins any more? The last I saw were from APSCO, I think, long ago. Guaranteed to snap and jump in pretty much any block, mic'd out of round, tapered, reverse tapered, and an interesting variety of diameters in every box. Wonderful things. I think maybe Kimball used pressed thread pins too. In any case, it's cut threads for me. Ron N
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