You can turn out the pins, remove the becket, turn it out 5 or six turns and bang it in again. Time consuming for a whole piano and doesn't necessarily eliminate jumping pins. But it will loosen the grip a bit. Cheers RicB I tuned a K &c today with impossibly tight pins... Fortunately none broke, but what do you do to get some of the tightness out without wrecking pin block. Lots of snapping, too. Do I just jerk them back and forth several times? Concerns me just a bit. thanks les bartlett
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