M&H model 10 "screw stringer" -Reply

[Vince Mrykalo]

I had a customer with a Wegman, and you better not lift the pin to
tune it.  No control if you do.  But never fear, there are directions
in those pianos on how to do it.
Vince Mrykalo
mrykalov@byugate.byu.edu


On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 02:42:48 -0400 (EDT) BSimon1234@aol.com writes:

>Have also, once, tuned a "wedge-lok" type of pinblock. The tuning
pins 
>sat in
>wedge shaped holes, barely larger than a regular tuning pin hole, in 
>solid
>cast iron. To tune it one had to slightly lift the pin, turn it, and 
>settle
>it down into the wedge again. Actually it felt fairly normal to tune.

>I have
>heard of tuners spraying the pinblock holes with WD40 before starting

>to
>tune, but I never did that. Anyone else ever see one?
>
>Bill Simon,
>Phoenix
>
>