<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Terry,<div>Would a narrow wall tuning tip work?</div><div>It has for me in situations like that.</div><div>In the odd spinet the pin is too close to the bearing bar or an adjacent pin, in those situations I use a thin walled tuning tip. with a tip adapter, so I don't have to keep changing the tip.</div><div>I always do the bolts with the carriage bolt head to the back. </div><div>John Ross<br><div><div>On 2013-02-28, at 7:38 AM, Terry Farrell <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Naw....... Just tune the rest of the piano to the pitch of that string! ;-)<div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Tom Rhea, Jr. wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">It seems to me that the bolt should be
reversed, with the washer and nut on the other side of the plate. In the
present configuration I would presume that the bolt would interfere with the
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="navy" face="Script MT Bold"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Script MT Bold";color:navy">Rhea Piano
Service<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Tom Rhea, Jr., Technician<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">(757) 373-0284<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
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<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [mailto:pianotech-<a href="mailto:bounces@ptg.org">bounces@ptg.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Terry Farrell<br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [pianotech] Pinblock
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