This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Bill Comments below and all your questions and thoughts have merit. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Billbrpt@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 8:33 AM Subject: Re: Ditch the tuning pin bushings In a message dated 5/11/01 10:01:52 AM Central Daylight Time, =20 Erwinpiano@email.msn.com (Erwinpiano) writes:=20 My solution was to fully fit the block with a good plate fange contact = and eliminate the bushing. The piano tunes like a dream(Bolduc = block)yeah=20 baby. Enough said?=20 Back in the late 1070's and early 1980's when I was interested in the=20 rebuilding end of the business, many people were putting plate bushings = in=20 Steinways. The word from Steinway at the time (and probably still is) = was=20 exactly the same reasoning that you put forth here, Dale.=20 Dittos to the stwy argument Bill My only question about that is how far the tuning pin coil ended up = being=20 from the top of the pinblock. This is an obvious concern but it's interesting that I still = haven't found it to be much of an inhibitor to getting the ppiano to = STAY in tune. Also just tap them in till your happy with the height = and retune(Iv'e done this a few times) In some cases, it seems to me, the lack of a=20 plate bushing really creates a bad "flagpole" effect. Couldn't a well = fitted=20 pinblock *and* good, hard maple plate bushings make an even better=20 arrangement than simply one or the other?=20 Yes but would it be overkill or just possibly a caddilac feature the = does give a bit smoother drive. What's your and any others opinion on that, please?=20 Bill Bremmer RPT=20 Madison, Wisconsin=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/02/f9/b8/a4/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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