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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Al,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'> I don’t see the problem with using
Delignit blocks if you are careful with your drilling. It seems that drilling
is the key no matter what block you use. I personally like to drill a sample
piece after cutting and shaping the block to fit the flange and then waiting to
see what time does to it while waiting for other parts and strings to arrive.
Doesn’t matter which block just see what the sample did and adjust
accordingly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'> What went wrong? Could have been too tight from
the factory (never seen this before on a Baldwin </span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>) and someone tried to
heat or otherwise treat the pins and their solution went awry? It could have
been a spill of some kind. Heck, could be just about anything, no? What
happened is kind of a moot point. It now is, what it now is. Your job, should
you choose to accept it, is to effect a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Greg Newell<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Greg's Piano Forté<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>www.gregspianoforte.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>AlliedPianoCraft<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 14, 2008 1:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Pianotech List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Pinblock for Baldwin SF-10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I
am installing a new pinblock in a Baldwin SF-10. This piano is only 10 years
old, but the pinblock has been destroyed by the use of metal tuning
pin sleeves in combination with CA glue (about 30 to 40 sleeves and glue
all over the place). I can't imagine a 10 YO piano with what appears to be
a Delignit pinblock get so loose that it required this kind of desperate
repairs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>My
question to the other rebuilders is this. I have always used Bolduc pinblocks
in Steinways and Masons and have used Multi-Laminate pinblocks in lesser
pianos, (never had loose tuning pins in 40 years), but I have never used a
Delignit pinblock. Should I replace this pinblock with the Delignit (which now
scares me) or one of the others? Also any thoughts on what might have gone
wrong with this piano?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thanks
for any input</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Al
Guecia<br>
Allied PianoCraft<br>
PO Box 1549<br>
High Point, NC 27261<br>
(336) 454-2000<br>
<a href="mailto:PianoTech@alliedpianocraft.com">PianoTech@alliedpianocraftcom</a><br>
<a href="http://www.alliedpianocraft.com">www.alliedpianocraft.com</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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