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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>List: from Sy Zabrocki</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>TOPIC: Tuning pins too close to
plate.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>This week I tuned a new Chickering =
grand by
Baldwin. Somewhere about octave five there is a section plate break. The =
first
three tuning pins in the third section are so close to the plate the =
tuning
hammer tip cannot be inserted over the pin. Fortunately I had a slim =
wall hammer
tip extension and was able to tune these three pins. It is obvious the =
tuning
pin holes were drilled off to the side instead in the center of the =
plate hole.
(No plate bushings).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The piano owner is a wealthy retired =
fellow. He
states to me he was proud to purchase a Chickering because it is =
American made.
(He doesn't know the keys and action were probably made in Mexico). So I =
pointed
out the flaw in his piano and told him had it not been for my slim wall =
tip I
could not have tuned these strings. He could see the =
problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>My thoughts about the Chickering =
were negative
although it was only a 4'10". I believe he would have been =
better off
with almost any Asian piano. You would not see such a flaw in any =
Japanese or
Korean piano. Some tuner at Baldwin must have noticed this problem and =
did
nothing about it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>You can't easily move pins away from =
the plate.
I thought of just just bending the pins . . . and then wait for them to
break.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Oh well, all in a week's =
work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Sy =
Zabrocki--RPT</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>