<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Hitch Pin Replacement Question</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">You mentioned that you replaced only the bass and tenor section hitchpins</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">with a vertical hitchpin.  Why not the whole enchilada?</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Am I corrected in surmising that the piano on which you left the treble</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">hitch pins alone had rear duplexes?  If so, how did you set bearing</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">combining the two techniques? What was your reasoning in keeping the rear</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" color="#000000">duplexes?</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>1. It was me first opportunity for the vertical leap.</div> <div> 2. Setting the treble rear duplex bearing as usual and tweaking the non-duplex</div> <div>     section's down bearing is refined with vertical pins. Also the bass bridge cap</div> <div>     was replaced with a taller one to accommodate the new hitches.</div> <div> 3. Reasoning...economy (those bass hitches were a bear) and not wanting</div> <div>     to get too far afield. It was a customer's piano in for re-restringing and</div> <div>     action regrooving (read truck-like) correcting a previous rebuild.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>