<html> Hi Zen- So what did you do? David Skolnik At 12:34 PM 02/13/2002 -0500, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Hear the notes change pitch while the tuning pins twist!   Hear the technician shout endless streams of obscenities!   (And it's all happening at a church near you!)   Hi Everyone --   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.)   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?   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.   Any insights would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you. Z! Reinhardt  RPT Ann Arbor  MI <a href="mailto:diskladame@provide.net">diskladame@provide.net</a></blockquote></html>