<HTML><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" dir=ltr> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <DIV>Tom, its hard to photograph but I had described the top’s dimensions, about .2”x.26”  rect or oval as you say, but most pins were more rectangular than oval  ..  here is another pic.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Smith </DIV> <DIV>SWFL</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=tomgorley88@sonic.net href="mailto:tomgorley88@sonic.net">Tom Gorley</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 22, 2011 5:12 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pianotech] Geo Broadbent Tuning Pins</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Dave, you are not showing us the shape of the top of the pin.  That's what we need to know to answer your question.  I presume it's a standard oval pin from the 19th century.<BR> <DIV><SPAN style="WIDOWS: 2; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; FONT: medium helvetica; WHITE-SPACE: normal; ORPHANS: 2; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); WORD-SPACING: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class=Apple-style-span> <DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 20px 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(34,58,168)"><SPAN style="FONT: 20px 'Corsiva Hebrew'"><B>   </B></SPAN><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px">Tom Gorley</SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px kokonor"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#910f08>Registered Piano Technician     </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(62,0,147)"><SPAN><B>      </B></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> <DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 14px 'Book Antiqua'; COLOR: rgb(62,0,147)"><SPAN style="LETTER-SPACING: 0px"><BR></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></SPAN><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>On Sep 22, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Dave Smith wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "> <DIV>I encountered a Geo Broadbent straight-strung grand piano with tuning pins as shown. Piano is over 100 years old. Although the pin shown is a bit chewed up from some previous tech (not this one) using vise grips, it it pretty close to the other undamaged ones still in the piano. No tuning lever tip I have seen will fit this, as the pin is rectangular in shape, .2”x.26” roughly. The pins are threaded into the block with a pretty coarse thread. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Does anyone know where to find a hammer tip that would fit this type pin? The piano was moved here from South Africa, where apparently the techs had no trouble tuning it :}</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Also the piano is sitting at about 100c flat to A440, but I was assuming it was designed to be tuned at A415 anyway. Any thoughts on this also? Thanks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Dave Smith</DIV> <DIV>SW FL</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><SPAN><IMG_0597.JPG></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>