You could try Paul Larudee's Lo-torq tuning pins sold by Pianotek. I haven't tried but they look like a good idea. On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Chuck Behm <behmpiano at gmail.com> wrote: > Marcel - Good point. It's been a long, long time since I've repinned a > spinet (1980's, perhaps), I hadn't thought about the tightness factor, and I > should have. It already has several strings that bend slightly past the #2 > tuning pins. I'll see what kind of tightness I get with 3's and the thin CA > glue in the hole, as Dean suggested. At least this one doesn't have the > beckets that are bent to lock the coil in place. I hate trying to pry those > off - probably would just recommend restringing if it had those. Chuck > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090411/29ec02c3/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lotorq.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 57521 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090411/29ec02c3/attachment-0001.jpg>
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