The metal tuning pin insert shims.

[bobelue@hiwaay.net]

>        When one encounters a piano which has had loose tuning pins and
>someone has doped the holes to swell the wood, and the applications seem to
>be loosing its effect, or if someone has oiled the tuning pins to ease the
>rust and the oil has worked its way into the pin block and made a few of
>the pins really jumpy, would an alternative and reasonable fix be to insert
>the metal inserts into the tuning pin hole and then reinsert the tuning pin
>or one of one size smaller?
>
>Steve Haasch
>wllj40a@prodigy.com
>
>>From the back woods of the Florida Alps.
>
>
Steve...(and the group)...how about sandpaper shims instead of metal?

Bobby Belue