Tuning pin size?

[Joseph Garrett]

Ron,
My point exactly. I guess the next question is: Why in this "modern" age
that we live in, can't that industry settle on a standardization for shape
and dimension of the top of tuning pins?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning pin size?


> >Ron & List,
> >My question was and still is, does anyone know when and how did the
> >industries decide on the diameter of tuning pins?
>
> Hi Joe,
> Again, I sure don't specifically, but with the consensus of opinion of
> rebuilders who are willing to decide for themselves what works and what
> doesn't (based on personal experience and experimentation rather than
> industry specified sacred cows), ending up in about the same place, it
> can't have been anything but a similar process among manufacturers that
set
> these standards in the first place. What aspect of piano design a hundred
> years ago wasn't dictated by empirical criteria of what seemed to work
best
> according to what they knew at the time? And once any manufacturer had
> something that seemed to work, why wouldn't everyone else not attempt to
> copy it to save themselves the trouble of trying to work out their own
> understanding of why something worked - or didn't?
>
>
> >Another question that's bugged me for years: Why is it that some
> >manufacturers 2/0 tuning pins are too big for a standard #2 tip, while
some
> >are too small and others are just right? (Hmmmm! sounds like Goldilocks
had
> >something to do with that!) :-)
> >Regards,
> >Joe Garrett
> >P.S.
> >An afterthought: Maybe Jack Wyatt might know about this stuff. Jack?
>
> The tip shape is an entirely different and separate concern from pin
> diameter, and is apparently not standardized even today.
>
>
> Ron N