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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Phillippe,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would suggest a Sole #2 tip. =
They are a
little on the small side of #2.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But before you buy anything, try the =
tips on
another newer piano that you know to be standard size. There was a time =
when the
tips that were made, were too large for the sizes that they actually =
were
marked.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sole tips are shorter than most =
available now, and
are available in size #2 and #3 from Jahn in Germany and Mother Goose =
Tools in
the U.S.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI=
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=phil.errembault@skynet.be
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, January 29, 2006 =
1:51
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Tuning pins =
undersized, where
can I find sockets for my lever ?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I live in Brussels and I got a very =
old piano
with a wooden frame, and I'd like to use it to learn tuning by =
myself,
and why not becoming someday a professional tuner. (I'm quite =
tired of my
previous job...) So... It seems that there is only one shop in =
brussels
that could help me, but they are soooo helping, that each time I visit =
them I
decide that it will be the last time. They never did anything else =
that trying
to implicitly discourage me, and I have the feeling that they just =
want to
protect their position of monopoly on Brussels. So I'm trying to find =
every
information I can on the net and in books.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since they were soooo cooperative, =
I've bought on
the net, a tuning kit <FONT face=Arial size=2>including
a "H</FONT><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>ale Pro Extension =
Tuning Hammer"
(it seems to be more a tuning lever than a tuning hammer but... ok. =
Here are
pictures of the stuff : </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial =
size=2><A
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href="http://home.flash.net/~schteev/prokit8.jpg">http://home.flash.net=
/~schteev/prokit8.jpg</A> <A
=
href="http://home.flash.net/~schteev/ext1.jpg">http://home.flash.net/~s=
chteev/ext1.jpg</A></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>This
material was p</FONT></FONT><FONT color=brown size=+5><FONT =
face=Arial
color=#000000 size=2>resented as being THE professional =
reference for
tuners, and it seemed true, since it matches quite =
closely with the
drawing in the book from Arthur A. Reblitz; including the =
name
"Hale" on it...</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=brown size=+5><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 =
size=2>I bought
it with two aditionnal sockets, and none of them match with my =
piano. The
pins on my piano are only 1/4" on the cylindric part, =
and 4.5mm at
the top. even the smallest tip (#1) is floating nearly freely around =
it. The
seller has no idea on how to help me solve my problem. Do you have any =
idea
where / how I could find a socket small enough for my piano =
?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>thank =
you, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 =
size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Philippe =
Errembault</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>