Pull the action, put aluminum foil on the keybed and
use the thinnest type of ca glue around these pins (
and the rest if you want to really up the tightness).
Wear a carbon filter mask so you don't get a headache,
goggles and gloves. Is this an "openface" block?
Thump
--- CAROLYN BOHN <cbohn1@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have an elderly client with an even more elderly
> grand
> piano (about 100 years old). The piano is in good
> condition except that
> the tuning pins in the tenor section are fairly
> loose, and two pins will not
> hold the tuning. When I checked the pinblock, there
> were, in fact, short
> cracks coming off the holes for those 2 pins. I
> don't want to start piling
> up big charges for this client, but would like to
> make the piano playable for
> her. I'm wondering if there is a way to epoxy the
> cracks with the pinblock
> in place, or some other fix someone knows about.
> I've also read some
> discussion of tightening pins with CA glue and would
> appreciate advice on how
> and when to do that, and what thickness of CA glue
> to use.
>
>
>
>
> --- CAROLYN BOHN
>
> --- cbohn1@mindspring.com
>
> --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.
>
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