>If you'll make a drawing of the S&S tuning pin arrangement as designed and >installed, lo these past 100+ years, you'll find that there is just about no >way to keep the pins from contacting the plate. Even in the treble where the holes are countersunk? > I suspect this is how they >managed to keep their three-ply pinblocks from self-destructing. It is also >the only explanation I can think of for their long-term practice of drilling >at such an extreme back angle -- the pins can contact the plate at the >bottom edge and still look reasonably centered out where folks can see >them.. > >Del Ok, you may very well be right, and certainly are about the pinblock. That would make the Steinway line that pins ride the plate because of poor block to plate flange fit rather another load of bull dip then, wouldn't it? Not that I doubted it's status as bull dip in the first place, but... Perhaps "questionable design" would better suit. I'll look at it again. Ron N
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