<HTML>List, I am about to replace all of the bass strings(42 of them) in a 100 year old Story and Clark upright.  The old ones were steel wound and quite tubby.  I've done many individual string repairs, but never a whole set of strings or bass strings.  In the interests of saving money and time, I was thinking of using the old tuning pins.  I suspect that this is probably not the greatest idea, but the pinblock seems remarkably tight.   Will anybody on this list admit to having done this before?  Should I bite the bullet and get new pins?  The piano is going from CA to Idaho to a family cabin where it will be played infrequently, but I do want to do good work. Thanks in advance, Dave Stahl(radiation suit on....:-) </HTML>