<!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 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interesting that you eliminated the = false beats by pressing against the HITCH PIN.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you ment bridge pin, I regularly use = CA glue on old uprights to calm them down. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After tuning the piano to = pitch,</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>the piano is placed on my tilter at a 45% = </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>( the wheels the tilter has are just right to hold = the piano there )  and CA is dropped as close to the top of the base of the = bridge pin as possible.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Top pin only, as the CA usually runs = down the string to the bottom pin and onto the under side of the bridge. If you = are not careful you could make a mess, but unlikely.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It usually gets two passes with the CA = from top treble to the high tenor.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Everything that is reachable without = taking the bass strings off or moving them.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Use the thin CA.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI= V> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=edwithen@oregontrail.net = href="mailto:edwithen@oregontrail.net">Ed Carwithen</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 06, 2002 = 10:36 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> hitch pins</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a Hoffman piano (my book lists = several Hoffman types, but not this one, so I don't know the year, probably 1910-1920), previously a player, with badly ringing strings starting = about C6.  I isolated several strings and determined that pressing = against the hitch pins eliminated the problem.  In the past I have made = improvement by gently tapping hitch pins in and/or using epoxy on them.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>  My question is, what kind of = danger do I run by tapping in these pins.  Am I likely to split the = bridge?  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Other considerations??</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed Carwithen</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John Day, OR</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>