I've experienced these snappy pins on one piano, and I was frankly concerned for my tuning lever... if I were going to "exercise" these pins, I would want to put a solid head on my old extension lever... i.e. a one-piece head/tip combo as opposed to the angled head plus removable tip. Maybe, even better from the perspective of your new Schaff extension lever's extension shaft, I would even consider removing the handle from an old student lever, end drill a ~1" or ~1-1/2" dowel piece about 18" long and epoxy or CA it to the student shaft. Thoughts? Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Rob McCall <rob at mccallpiano.com> wrote: <snip> > ... I believe my next course of action will be to simply lower the pitch, > then move the pin back and forth to see how that loosens the pins, and then > bring it up to pitch. I'll try this on a handful of pins to see if it > becomes easier to move the pin. If it does, I believe I can generally move > through the entire piano fairly quickly once I establish a routine. If it > doesn't, then I'll tune the piano as I did this last time, and inform the > client of his various options. I'll then see what he's willing to have me > do. The good news is that during the last convention in Grand Rapids, I > bought one of those new adjustable-handled tuning hammers from Schaff. I'm > sure that will give me adequate leverage to accomplish the tasks at hand. > </snip> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091202/a008c3da/attachment.htm>
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