<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 = http-equiv=Content-Type><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 = Transitional//EN"> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Jarred, have the piano sent = back!  I believe that some problems in new pianos are intolerable - and this is = one of them.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Stephen Powell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Auckland NZ</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: = 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original = Message-----</B><BR><B>From: </B>Jarred Finnigan <<A = href="mailto:jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au">jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au</A>&g= t;<BR><B>To: </B><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> = <<A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>><BR><B>Date: </B>Monday, 29 November 1999 09:21 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>What would = you do?<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Hi list!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>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 experience that exists out = there, thanks!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>I do a fair bit of tuning = for one of Australia's largest piano houses and today came across a slightly = unusual problem (unusual to me anyway).  I was pitch raising a brand = new "Gors & Khalman" upright out of the "Pearl = River" factory in China (yuk, awful).  As you will know if you have = ever had the "privilege" of tuning 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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Of course I have been = asked to write the mandatory report.  Apart from the obvious re-pin, what = would you do?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Any replies greatly appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Jarred = Finnigan</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>APTTA    PTTG = (VIC)<BR><A = href="mailto:jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au">jfinnigan@optusnet.com.au</A><B= R></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>