Why tuning pin bushings/why not?

[gordon stelter]

I've always thought bushings: 1) Keep crap out of the
pinblock.
2) Provide a bit of humidity barrier.
3)Keep the pin from "wallering" out the hole (as they
say here in the South.
4)Add a bit more resistance to string tension.
     Why did so many high-end manufacturers not use
them? What is the educated opinion on this today?
     Please inform.
     Thump

Pray tell?.
--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> "Alan R. Barnard" wrote:
> 
> > Why not go ahead and install bushings if there is
> room? I'd like to see how
> > a bushed Steinway would tune. As they say in
> Brooklyn, "It couldn't hoit,
> > could it?"
> >
> > Alan Barnard
> >
> 
> I have one of these beasts, on at a finishing school
>  here in Bergen. Cant say I
> find any particular problems or plusses I can
> attribute to the bushings. This is
> one of those rebuilds Ron N just wrote about... by
> the fellow I mentioned in my
> reply. All kinds of falsness... rather thin and
> crashy sound.... in short...
> they LOVE it.
> 
> Another one at a church here was at one time one of
> these beautifull art cases.
> Sad to see whats become of it. But again they love
> it. Rock hard hammers, sounds
> like glass. and they want it that way.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> RicB
> 
> 
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> 
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