How about just roughing up the last couple of inches of the string with sandpaper to give it a better grip. I would suspect some kind of contamination on the pin with a lubricant is the problem. A drop of thin CA glue in the becket hole would probably fix it, but this may irrevocably offend one's craftman sensibilities. It seems the issue is lack of friction, so anything to increase it should be effective. <br>
<br>I had a string loop on a harpsichord that was slipping, and the tiniest drip of CA fixed it, and months later it is still holding fine. It beat replacing the string!<br><br>Ryan Sowers<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 7:11 AM, David Love <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidlovepianos@comcast.net">davidlovepianos@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have an interesting problem with a Yamaha C7 c 1980. Nickel pins. There<br>
is one pin in which I can't get the becket to not slip and be pulled through<br>
the pin. Interestingly I've tuned this piano many times. At this most<br>
recent tuning I was going over the tuning and noticed that one unison (high<br>
treble) had slipped considerably. My first thought was that I had for<br>
skipped it somehow in my sequence. But as I pulled it up to pitch again it<br>
simply continued to slip back. I realized that the becket was moving so took<br>
off the string, cut off the old becket and reinserted the string with a<br>
longer becket. This one slipped as well. Since the string spanned two<br>
notes and was high up in the piano I decided to leave it until I could<br>
decide to either replace the tuning pin or figure out exactly why this was<br>
happening. I've avoided nickel tuning pins for various reasons (mostly<br>
looks and tuning lever feel) when possible but haven't encountered something<br>
like this. There is clearly something about the pin which is causing this<br>
to happen but I'm not sure exactly what that is. Thoughts?<br>
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David Love<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Ryan Sowers, RPT<br>Puget Sound Chapter<br>Olympia, WA<br><a href="http://www.pianova.net">www.pianova.net</a><br>