<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: What would you do?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <BLOCKQUOTE>Hello Jarred Finnigan, I live in Europe and work freelance for the branch office of a Piano corpor= ation. My main work for them is to check on technical problems that occur every no= w and then (usually due to the wrong treatment of other piano technicians).<= BR> If however a piano or a grand has a serious basic and/or structural fault, = I will definitely not attempt to put a bandaid on it. loose tuning pins are a serious and basic fault, so, ask for a better one a= nd do not touch the ill one, but send it back to where it came from. Antares <BLOCKQUOTE><H5>-----Original Message----- </H5>From: Jarred Finnigan <= jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au <mailto:= jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au> > To: pianotech@ptg.org <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>  <pianotech@ptg.org <= mailto:pianotech@ptg.org> > Date: Monday, 29 November 1999 09:21 PM Subject: What would you do? </BLOCKQUOTE>Hi list! I have recently subscribed to this list and before posing my little dilemma= I would just like to express how grateful I am for the great wealth of expe= rience that exists out there, thanks!   I do a fair bit of tuning for one of Australia's largest pia= no houses and today came across a slightly unusual problem (unusual to me an= yway).  I was pitch raising a brand new "Gors & Khalman" = upright out of the "Pearl River" factory in China (yuk, awful). &n= bsp;As you will know if you have ever had the "privilege" of tunin= g one of these instruments they typically have extremely tight tuning pins. =  This one had very loose pins two of which would not even hold pitch.<B= R>   Of course I have been asked to write the mandatory report. &= nbsp;Apart from the obvious re-pin, what would you do? Any replies greatly appreciated.   Jarred Finnigan APTTA    PTTG (VIC) jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au <mailto:jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>