I tuned a circa 1890 Wegman upright for the first time, and have been reading some of the discussions about the tuning pin system in the archives. You all might enjoy the attached image, a picture of the tuning instructions the owner found inside the piano. The pins responded to my Reyburn impact lever in an interesting way. I tend to have the center of the swing either vertical or slightly CCW. When raising pitch, in increments of pitch change seemed very controlled and predictable. I imagine the position of the lever kept the pressure neutral where the pin contacts the teardrop shaped hole at the time of impact. However, when dropping pitch, it must roll the pin away from the friction points, because there were occasional large drops in pitch, 20-50 cents, on a single tap. I'm thinking about this only now after yesterday's pitch raise session. I may try my smooth pull lever when I see it next. There were broken strings, and a few more broke while tuning despite not overpulling, protek'ing the bearing points, and dropping pitch to break binding. So I will be going back to repair a total of a dozen of them. (Maybe more after fine tuning.) The condition is fair, and the owner was alright with all my caveats, he just wants it playable. In this upright they are all single-string from bottom to top, so I suspect that will make the job a bit longer, winding all those loops. Thoughts on process? I'm thinking of getting all the measurements first, then cutting all the lengths, then winding all the loops at once, then installing them. Jim