Before It Breaks

[Tom Cole]

kam544@flash.net wrote:
> 
> >...adjust the balance pins toward the front of the
> >piano, to get the pins out of the rut in the bushing...
> >Tom Cole
> 
> That's an interesting quick fix approach, Tom.
> 
> I wonder, though, wouldn't it be better served by moving the pins on the
> offending notes towards the action instead?  This way, the nestled bushing
> would be out of the picture entirely.

Keith,

You are correct, of course. The only exception would be if the pins were
already too near the backs of the mortises.

Tom Cole