<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Friends,
<p>It looked like I was going to finish early today (yea!! it's Friday!!),
but alas, it was not to be. :-( The rotten-sounding
little 1966 P A Starck spinet decided to break <i>two</i> treble strings.
I didn't trust removing the action because all the little fiber nut grommets
looked like they were waiting for an excuse to fall apart, too, so I knotted
the one string and replaced the other with the action in the piano.
<p>Well, more to the point. The tuning pins were loose so I decided
to move up to the next larger size (on the strings I was repairing/replacing).
I was surprised to find that on all three of them the tuning pin becket
holes were not drilled all the way through! I was in no mood to do
much sleuthing, but I suspect that <i>all</i> the treble tuning pins were
the same way.
<p>So, either chalk this one up to my poor powers of observation, or else
this is a pretty rare way to go. Which is it?
<p>Regards,
<br>Clyde</html>