<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Kendall Ross Bean wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">I think there might also be some confusion here because Wurlitzer apparently used two different configurations for these iron pinblocks. The one I am working on uses a machine screw with a relatively fine thread to hold the tuning pin in from the back (or underside on a grand), but you brought up a good point: there was also a design that used wedges, and a tuning pin that was split at the bottom to accept the wedge, which wedge could then be pounded in further to tighten the pin (which design I have also seen in my travels, but unfortunately don't have a picture of.)</span></blockquote></div><br><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Oops, I guess I didn't look at the photo. Yes, definitely a different animal. I suspect the wedge one came first. I always heard it called the "Wegman" plate, so I assume someone called Wegman invented it. That system doesn't have much control. You can drive the wedge and get more torque, but that isn't reversible, or at least not easily. The one I tune is definitely too tight for fine tuning, a real struggle. </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>So probably the Wurlitzer R & D guys (and they had quite a department at times) came up with this solution, which seems like a great one. If you wanted, before restringing you could remove them all, refinish the plate, clean everything up, lube if it seemed appropriate, and then reinstall, checking each for torque and adjusting. You could do an initial install using an electric screwdriver with a torque adjustment.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Or you could just leave them in place as described earlier. <br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>