tight pins

[Byeway222 at aol.com]

Hello List,
 
I recently had real problems with a piano which had recently been re-strung  
and the pins were  ridiculously tight.  It was the type of  rigid tightness 
which makes tuning stability  impossible because of  the amount of twisting in 
the pin.   I initially had RicB's idea of  winding the pins out and in again 
with the becket out of the hole.  
What I found to be totally effective was winding each pin out ONE full  turn 
and back again, 5 times. This does not loosen the coils enough to cause the  
becket to come out.  OK, you have to tidy up the coils and make sure  the 
beckets are nipped in, but you don't have the fiddle of putting beckets back  in 
the holes.  The heat which builds up in the pin appears to be just  enough to 
expand the pin in the plank in order to give it slightly looser  fit.  The 
result has been fine, and I can now acheive a totally stable  tuning .
 
ric



   
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