I just this week delivered a 116 year old Wegman that came inti my shop in boxes. Many of the tuning pins were missing. I drilled out the plate for tuning pin bushings, took the sides off the case, cut out the block of wood behind the plate and installed a complete Delignet pinblock. The piano is wonderful and tunes like any other piano. Steve Grattan Lost Chord Clinic ________________________________ From: George F Emerson <pianoguru at cox.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Thu, May 6, 2010 11:08:09 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Wegman grand The only Wegman I have seen was an upright. It has no pinblock, per se. There is a chunk of wood where the pinblock should be. It is a structural member of the back, but it is not functionally a pinblock. The tuning pins do not penetrate it and are not imbedded in it. The tuning pin look like a traditional tuning pin with the threaded part of its length cut off. The pins are held in place by friction with the plate itself. The plate holes, to engage the pins, are an inverted teardrop shape. The tension of the string pulls the pin into the narrower part of this teardrop hole. When a string breaks, the pin just pops out of the plate hole. In the absence of tension on the string, there is nothing to hold the pin in place. There is no pinblock to be replaced. The big problem is the stringing process. Where a single length of string doubles around a single hitch pin, the two tuning pins have to be turned simultaneously until there is enough tension on both segments to produce enough friction between the pins and the teardrop holes that the pins don't just fall out. Maybe the grands are different, or maybe they evolved differently over time, but this is an example of the one Wegman in my personal experience. Frank Emerson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Anderson" <anrebe at gmail.com> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Wegman grand > didn't Wegmans have that steel block with a tightening bolt for the tuning pin or some such thingee? > Andrew Anderson > > On May 6, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Chuck Behm wrote: > >> Hi list - I've been asked to give a ballpark figure (a long distance away - it'll be a couple hour drive to take a look) for new pinblock, pins and strings on a Wegman grand. My question is whether the grands had the patented tuning pins, and if they do, will that make a difference as to the type of pinblock. I've dealt with a number of Wegman uprights, but never a Wegman grand before. >> Before I get serious at all about this, I'll schedule an afternoon to drive out and look it over, but I would just appreciate any advice from those of you who have worked on them. Chuck Behm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100507/edafd76b/attachment.htm>
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