Hi there, fellow bearded one, <grin> ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com> Ron writes: > I really don't have a clue about the > bridge pin material. It seems to me that someone posted that some > manufacturers used brass to try to minimize the effect, but I've found > plenty of loose pin caused false beats in brass pinned pianos, so I have my > doubts that it works all that well. Brass is a pretty soft metal compared with the usual steel bridge pin. I would suspect that drilling a bridge with the intent of putting in a brass bridge pin would necessitate drilling a hole closer in size to the brass bridge pin than might be done with a steel pin. After all, you gotta get the little sucker almost all the way into that there hole without bending too many of them over and breaking too many of them off. Perhaps that might explain their tendency to be loose, especially after a couple of good seasonal changes.? Don't know, just speculatin'. (I'm good at speculatin'.) :-) Brian T.
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