<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3354" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>David~</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your candid reply! Greatly appreciated! That's just what I suspected, and it's nice to know I'm not the only one in the same boat! Yep, I too, just "take 'em out of the box and pound em in." Would that all of life were so simple. As long as it says "Genuine Yamaha Part"... (...ours is not to ask why...)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>But then one day I took a closer look and stopped to think... ...and as they say, maybe forgot to start again...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Omigosh - Don't tell me Yamaha is still using those nickel pins! I thought for sure they would have read Reblitz... ...where he says nickel/blued is best... ;-).</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, at least it's a far better situation than I understand we had some years ago, when U.S. technicians couldn't even get new tuning pins... ...at least we have a choice...</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=715422821-07072008><FONT face=Arial size=2>~Kendall Ross Bean</FONT> </SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV align=left> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=533361603-16112007> <DIV align=left> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=533361603-16112007>PianoFinders</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=533361603-16112007><A title=http://www.pianofinders.com href="http://www.pianofinders.com/"></A></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=533361603-16112007>e-mail: <A title=mailto:kenbean@pianofinders.com href="mailto:kenbean@pianofinders.com">kenbean@pianofinders.com</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=533361603-16112007><EM></EM></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=533361603-16112007><EM></EM></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>