<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hear the notes change pitch while the = tuning pins <STRONG>twist</STRONG>!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hear the technician = <STRONG>shout</STRONG> endless streams of obscenities!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>(And it's all happening at a church = near you!)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Everyone --</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yesterday was one of those days.  = I was called in by a church to try to tune a piano that was notorious for not staying = in tune.  What I found was all of the tuning pins standing so high in = the pinblock that the bottoms of the coils were 10mm from the surface of the = plate.  You read right -- 10mm, or 3/10 of an inch.  (Yes, I = shot pictures of this, but I still have to get the film developed.  No, = I didn't swear out loud, but it wouldn't surprise me if others before me had.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pin torque was all over the map.  = Some pins turned smoothly and didn't pose serious problems in being set.  = Others were murderously tight.  Only one was bordering on loose.  What I'm = wondering is, will pounding these pins to a proper height help bring = about some sort of uniformity of torque or will it make the tight ones tighter still?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Concerning the tight pins -- does = anyone know of any cute tricks for slightly easing that tightness?  I'm going to = work on getting authorization to do the pin-pounding job, and I'd like to be = able to leave some semblence of consistency of pin torque when I'm = done.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any insights would be greatly = appreciated.  Thank you.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Z! Reinhardt  RPT<BR>Ann = Arbor  MI<BR><A href="mailto:diskladame@provide.net">diskladame@provide.net</A></FONT><= /DIV></BODY></HTML>