[CAUT] existing pins

[McNeilTom at aol.com]

Hi, Jeff and Colleagues -
 
When I arrived at my post at SUNY Fredonia years ago, there was no hoisting  
arrangement.  I contacted the phys plant's 'head carpenter' about my  needs.  
Within a couple days he and a crew arrived.  They drilled a  hole in the 
concrete floor of the clarinet professor's studio immediately over  my shop space.  
Then they installed a heavy duty eye bolt at the center of  my shop ceiling, 
with the nut (not the clarinet guy!) upstairs in  the studio.  That was 
"buttered over" with concrete patch and the  carpet laid back over it.  This all 
happened between semesters and the  clarinet prof never even knew about it!  He 
and I became friends and  eventually talked about it.  He said he wondered what 
that strange noise  was coming from his floor every once in a while. I 
confessed it was my  chainfall, and he was quite OK with it.  Hoisted many plates 
over the  years, and even whole concert grands.
 
~ Tom McNeil  ~
Vermont Piano Restorations
VermontPiano.com

346 Camp  Street
Barre, VT 05641
(802) 476-7072  

 
In a message dated 8/14/2008 3:22:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu writes:

Hey  list,

One more post about restringing with existing pins. We had a lot  of good 
points brought up last time. I like Jon Page’s beckett tool, for  instance. 

This time I’m curious if anyone has  pulled the plate,  without a hoist, 
while leaving the existing tuning pins in place. We do not  have means to mount 
anything like a wench or whatever to pull plates. We  normally have our movers 
show up with enough manpower to simply lift them out,  and set them back in 
place. But we’ve never attempted using the existing pins.  It happens to be a “D”
. I’m concerned about the angle of the pins vs. the  nosebolts. And holding 
all that weight long enough to deal with any “problems”  that pop up.  Any 
thoughts on this? Has anyone ever done it?

Jeff  Farris
Piano Technician
School of Music
UT Austin
_jfarris at mail.utexas.edu_ (mip://021bcaf8/jfarris@mail.utexas.edu) 
512-471-0158






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