becket hole

[Gary Mc]

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I ran into one of these, three years ago.  I was pretty surprised just =
as you were! =20
I don't understand why they did it that way
Gary McCormick
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Clyde Hollinger=20
  To: pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 4:48 PM
  Subject: becket hole


  Friends,=20
  It looked like I was going to finish early today (yea!! it's =
Friday!!), but alas, it was not to be.   :-(   The rotten-sounding =
little 1966 P A Starck spinet decided to break two treble strings.  I =
didn't trust removing the action because all the little fiber nut =
grommets looked like they were waiting for an excuse to fall apart, too, =
so I knotted the one string and replaced the other with the action in =
the piano.=20

  Well, more to the point.  The tuning pins were loose so I decided to =
move up to the next larger size (on the strings I was =
repairing/replacing).  I was surprised to find that on all three of them =
the tuning pin becket holes were not drilled all the way through!  I was =
in no mood to do much sleuthing, but I suspect that all the treble =
tuning pins were the same way.=20

  So, either chalk this one up to my poor powers of observation, or else =
this is a pretty rare way to go.  Which is it?=20

  Regards,=20
  Clyde=20


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