<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just Thinking,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps the pin was bent during =  cooling after the heat treatment.  Sort of like cooking a weiner. <G></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI= V> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Wimblees@AOL.COM = href="mailto:Wimblees@AOL.COM">Wimblees@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, August 06, 2002 = 7:45 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bent Tuning = Pins</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a = message dated 8/6/02 9:40:22 PM !!!First Boot!!!, <A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A> = writes: <BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE">Hi List, <BR>I just removed the pins in a piano, in = preparation for a restringing. <BR>The majority of the old pins were bent, some = were quite bad. <BR>Is this because, a tuner was bending the pins, to = fine tune? I seem to <BR>remember someone saying they bent the pin a bit. = <BR>Regards, <BR>John M. Ross <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It would seem to me that = the tip of the hammer would break before it could bend a tuning pin. Is there any = evidence that the pins had been driven? Maybe in the process of = driving them deeper in the block, the tuner hit them at an angle. Just a thought. <BR><BR>Wim </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>