<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: broken needle</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> on 6/15/03 6:47 PM, David Love at davidlovepianos@earthlink.net wrote: I find the best thing to extract them with is a pair of cent= er pin cutters.  The tip of the cutters will grab the needle nicely if = you haven't pushed it deeper trying to get it out with other tools.  If= the needle is down the shoulder you don't necessarily need to worry about i= t.  But if it's up toward the crown you can get string contact sometime= s. I guess great minds run in the same gutter....my method exactly, after year= s of trying tweezers and needles and God knows what-all, including giving up= and guiltily (a new word, perhaps?) leaving them in there for the next poor= sucker......mea culpa.... ;o) David Andersen </BODY> </HTML>