<!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 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>John, I second that! Use CA to correct the problem. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I can't see changing a set of tuning pins without replacing strings too. It just doesn't make sense to me. Too much work and money for virtually no improvement in the sound. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>CA or do a re-stringing.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al Guecia</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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=jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">John Ross</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 24, 2008 4:52 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: tune, chip with oversized pins?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Have you thought about a C/A treatment, instead of new pins?</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Then it wouldn't need multiple tunings before becoming stable.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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=hacicspe@gmail.com href="mailto:hacicspe@gmail.com">daniel carlton</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech mailing list</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 24, 2008 12:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> tune, chip with oversized pins?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>hi all</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>i looked for about thirty minutes in the archives for info on this topic, but i didn't find an answer and i didn't want to wade through 336 more results from google...</DIV> <DIV>i'm drawing up an estimate for someone and i need to know how many tunings to include.</DIV> <DIV>so i'm looking in the "G" piano works labor guide for installing an entire set of oversized pins, and it says it includes one tuning. now i guess i can understand only needing a tuning and maybe a pitch adjust if you replace and pull up-to-pitch one pin at a time as you go. but it seems that one-atta-time is slower than all-at-once gang style. </DIV> <DIV>if you replaced all the pins gang style, you'd need to chip and tune a few times right?</DIV> <DIV>i think the question i need answered most is if i do it one at a time, which i can do pretty quickly, is the tuning going to end up pretty close to pitch when I'm done?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>thanks all</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>daniel carlton</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>