tuning pins too close

[Terry Beckingham]

Tom,

Schaff sells special thin wall tuning tips for this purpose. See items 14H 
and 14i on page 30 of their catalogue. I think most supply houses carry them.

Terry Beckingham

At 12:19 PM 11/21/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Dear list,
>     The other day I "ran into" a Wurlitzer console which had it`s top 2 
> tuning pins, at the 1st tri-chord unison, too close together.  When I put 
> the tuning lever tip on either of the top 2 pins the other tip would 
> move.  So, I need to return as soon as possible to tuning a clean 
> unison.  As it was, I roughly calculated how much the strings were moving 
> once I removed the tuning hammer and moved the pin that amount sharp to 
> compensate, but the unison is far from satisfactory.  The owner mentioned 
> that no other tuners had ever mentioned this, leaving me to wonder what I 
> was missing.  I`ve compared all my APSCO, Schaff, and Hale tips and they 
> are a pretty much the same outside dimensions.
>      I am anxious to please w/o asking the customer to recall the names 
> of my competition.
>     My plan, is to take a #2 tip which will not slide as far down the pin 
> as the #3`s, which I normally use, and grind down the outside as much as 
> necessary to allow it to fit on these pins w/o interfering with 
> the  adjacent pin.
>     Any suggestions or better ideas?
>thanks,
>Tom Carpenter
>Berthoud, Co
>