broken tuning pin

[Ron Nossaman]

Sorry about your broken tuning pin. I don't have any other 
ideas not already offered to remove it, but I do have a bitch 
or two. What is it about Chinese built pianos and obscene 
tuning pin torque? I've tuned a Hallet-Davis grand, and a 
Cable-Nelson vertical this week, both of which had pin torques 
just short of the "twist 'em off" range. Nearly every pin in 
both pianoids snapped and jumped when it finally moved in the 
block after cranking the pin a considerable degree. This 
somehow seems to be a feature. The Cable-Nelson, and a Kawai 
from a couple of weeks back, also displayed the increasingly 
popular 60 lb. one piece articulated front/fall board 
combination with no handles and a slick polyester finish. 
Probably won a design award.

Tuning is getting less enjoyable every year.
Ron N