I've both heard that story and experienced it. I had a customer with 1 won't-stay-put pin. I told him the possibility of inserting a larger pin and just expanding that crack. He said let's try it anyhow. We did. It made the others worse. He replaced the block. The customer was the retired husband of a public school music teacher. I supplied him with pin block material, strings, etc. he did the work. I had never done that before, and wouldn't again, but he did better than you might expect. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/8/2003 at 6:07 AM Clyde Hollinger wrote: >Yes, I've heard the same thing, and I repeat it to customers whose pianos >have >loose pins, especially if the looseness is in a relatively straight line >and the >other pins seem okay. Has anyone actually had the experience of inserting >oversize pins, or using shims which would increase the total diameter, and >then >finding that nearby pins were looser than before starting the repair? Is >there >a myth or here that really is unfounded? > >Regards, >Clyde > >Avery Todd wrote: > >> Daniel, >> >> Something I've heard many times to be aware of is that if a pin is >> loose because of a split beginning in the block, an oversize pin >> "could" enlarge the crack, making the looseness extend to even more >> pins. Just a thought. >> >> Avery >> >> At 01:07 AM 06/08/03 +0200, you wrote: >> >That sounds like a really temporary fix. Why not replace the pins with >> >larger while you are at it? > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives **************** END MESSAGE FROM Clyde Hollinger ********************* _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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