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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Tom and List</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I really like that term: "egglong" =
Conjures up the
very essence of that hole! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G.(UK)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 13, 2005 =
11:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: strange wrest pin =
holes in
Plate</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> strange wrest pin =
holes in
Plate</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Some years ago I came across a very =
strange,
but effective, way of ensuring the wrest pins stay tight. The hole =
in the
Plate was not bushed - indeed it was not round! It was =
<EM>tapered</EM>! The
effect of this was that the wrest pin was pulled, by string tension, =
into
the wedge shaped hole and remained for ever tight. How about that
then?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards from a darkening Sussex
Downland</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G.(UK)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> In the New World =
we had a
piano made by Wegman with that principal.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> An old timer,(As =
I guess I'm
getting to be) told me years ago "It has egglong =
holes in
the plate "</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Tom
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