Bent Tuning Pins

[Baldwin Yamaha Piano Centre]

Hi John,
              The term bending the pin a little, whilst tuning is very 
different than having bent pins.
Flag polling the pin would be a better term.
The bent pins were probably caused by an inexperienced or sloppy stringer.
Bending the pin re tuning, should only be an ultra fine adjustment, less 
than a beat every few seconds in my book, on unisons. It's a cheater move 
on stubborn pianos.

just my 2c worth
Roger

At 05:57 PM 8/6/02 -0300, you wrote:
>Hi List,
>I just removed the pins in a piano, in preparation for a restringing.
>The majority of the old pins were bent, some were quite bad.
>Is this because, a tuner was bending the pins, to fine tune? I seem to
>remember someone saying they bent the pin a bit.
>Regards,
>John M. Ross
>Windsor, Nova Scotia.
>jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca

Roger