<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <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></BODY></HTML>