[pianotech] Geo Brodbent Tuning Pins

[David Doremus]

CA glue does not help as much as you might think. I have found that 
plugging the block and restringing with 1/0 pins works very well, just 
watch your clearance next to plate struts, sometimes modern pins are too 
close to get a regular tip on and you need a thin wall tip.

--Dave
    New Orleans

On 9/22/11 11:28 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
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>
>     The one "Unique" thing, I noticed,
>     is the really course/deep threads! Wow! that's really a new one on me!
>
> I've seen this kind of pin on one other piano. I believe it was a 
> Broadwood straight strung grand from about 1885. There were several 
> pins that wouldn't hold, so I was going to put in larger pins. But 
> when I took out this "screws" pin, I showed the customer the problem, 
> and told that unless she was willing to spend the money for a new pin 
> block, etc. the piano could not be tuned. That's the last I heard from 
> her, although I later learned she gave it to a friend, who was 
> desperately trying to find someone to fix it. I think it more or less 
> made the rounds in St. Louis.
>
> Wim
>

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