<DIV>Thank you everyone for all your responses!  They will be a great help to me.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Merry Christmas, Matthew Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Before deciding you may not have to repin everything, try this test. Locate a hammer center that seems to be relatively free. Lift the hammer up and grab the shank close to the knuckle. Put some side stress on it (both directions) while swinging it through as big an arc as you can a half dozen times. Now check the tightness of the pinning. If it has seized up, you're looking at repinning everything. Through the years, I've run into a few of these, and in a couple of cases, we opted to try shrinking and lubricating centers as a possible cheap way around the obvious. Armed with alcohol and water, a hair dryer, and silicone/naphtha, I dosed and dried hammer centers, then applied the silicone mix. Took about an hour altogether. The plan was to try the cheap route, and repin later if it proved to be necessary. Both were over ten years ago, and if the problem returned, I don't know about it. So if you'd prefer to have your first repinning experience not be the never-ending, can't escape the action from Hell project, you might consider this as a possible alternative. It IS a Schafer. Just a thought. Ron N _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Yahoo! for Good <a href="http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/">Click here to donate</a> to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.