<HTML>List, I have tuned a friend of mine's piano a couple of times.  Middle C = hammer/butt assembly is loose.  The piano has Billing's flanges, which = I have never worked with before.  I removed the assembly, and the pinni= ng was loose in the hammer bushings.  After finding the appropriately s= ized pin to replace it with, I found that I couldn't get it through the "bir= d's eye" of the flange.   Stupid question # 1,892:  How tightly are the pins supposed to fit = in the flange/bird's eye?   Historical Note:  The piano in question is a really well maintained= old Beckwith upright that has been in my friend's family since new,  p= urchased from the Sears Catalogue in the late 1800s by her great grandma(muc= h to the chagrin of her great grandpa).  It took a few trips in covered= wagons. Her 88 year old father remembers crawling around beneath the keyboard wh= en he was a toddler.  It used to get taken to the town center on Saturd= ay nights for the weekly hoe-down(or some such thang).   Any help on pinning this type of flange will be greeted with gratitude. Dave Stahl</HTML>