<div>I agree with # 1. If you are up to a #4 pin, the block is going to be replaced next stringing job. I just used some CA glue on about 15 pins in small grand at a winery. A0 to C1 was mushy and there were a few that would let loose if they moved it. I came back from a break and they had a nice feel to them. I like the feel better than an overly tight block. </div> <div> </div> <div>Keith Roberts  </div> <div>On 2/22/07, Rick Florence <<a href="mailto:Rick.Florence@asu.edu">Rick.Florence@asu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">A few questions come to mind: 1.  Why pull a pin in an old D right before a concert when a few drops of CA glue would have done the trick? 2.  Why not splice the string? 3.  Do you not keep a set of strings in your inventory? ____________________ Rick Florence Senior Piano Technician Arizona State University School of Music -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org">caut-bounces@ptg.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org">caut-bounces@ptg.org</a>] On Behalf Of Willem Blees Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:33 PM To: CAUT Subject: [CAUT] unusual repair We've got a concert tonight featuring Aleck Karis. He prefered the "old" Steinway. One of the problems with this instrument is that there are several pins in octave 1 that are not very tight. Yesterday, low E finally gave out. So this morning I replaced it with a 4, but in the process, the string broke. First at the becket, but then after I wrestled with that for a few minutes, as I brought it up to pitch, the string broke at the pin. I told the professor in charge of this concert that there is nothing I could, and the Alexk would have to use the "new" D. An hour later I got a call from one of our piano professors, who has a D in his studio. He said "use my E". I said I would try, but there would be a chance that that string would break too. He said, what have we got to loose? So I did. I took the E off his piano, and put it on the concert hall piano. So far, knock on wood, it's working. Another first for me. PS: I did order another E, but it won't be here until tomorrow. Obviously not in time for tonight's concert, but in time for this weekend's concert, featuring Boris Berman, playing Mozart #2. Wim Willem Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician School of Music University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL USA 205-348-1469 </blockquote></div>