new tool? was Re: Time to level pins, dress coils...?

[Wimblees@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 12/7/99 4:15:28 PM !!!First Boot!!!, ilvey@jps.net writes:


 
 From:              "Brian Trout" <btrout@desupernet.net>
 To:                <pianotech@ptg.org>
 Subject:           Re: new tool?  was Re: Time to level pins, dress coils...?
 Date sent:         Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:51:56 -0500
 Send reply to:     pianotech@ptg.org
 
 > Hi Wim,
 > 
 > I think he was referring to a tuning pin setter.  There's a picture of it 
in
 > the Pianotek catalog on page B-10, item TPS-1. >>



<< That is the tool.  
 
 David I.

I thought that is what you were referring to. But a tuning pin setter will 
not prevent the tuning pin from "slipping" when it is pounded.  The handle is 
just for you to hold on to the punch that is used to pound in the tuning pin. 
The tension of the string will cause the pin to "slip." And, as Brian 
mentioned, when you tighten coils, you have to untune each string, so that 
the coil can be lifted. 

The bottom line, is that there is a lot more to leveling pins and tightening 
coils than just doing that. The piano will need to be tuned several times 
after that. 

Willem