<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Hi Terry,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>This Yamaha, probably has the plates with a screw to hold the pin in place.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>These screws should be snugged up, to stop the pin from wandering.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>It is not so much a loose pin that is causing the problem, it is the loose plate.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Sometimes the pins can just be pushed back in place with no damage, if you loosen the plate a bit more.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Then just tighten the screw. Problem solved without repining.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:32 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: New Center Pin Design</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That was actually the problem. When I first saw it I figured the guy chewed up the flange bushings with this innovation, but I repinned it with an 0.048" pin - so no enlargement there. The long unclipped end interferring with the hammer shank wanting to return to the rest postion is what caused the inoperable key. I could see that at least half of the hammer flange center pins were walking out of their proper postition on this piano - presumably I'll have a repinning and general action refurbishing job on the piano. This particular piano was the worst Yamaha I have ever tuned with respect to stray string noise (my experience is that Yamahas are usually a pleasure to tune) - more like tuning a Kimball console (false beats and unisons that would just not come clean - I hate that).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, September 13, 2003 4:10 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: New Center Pin Design</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Terry <P>you gotta love it... ... the fellow / gal was clever enough to screw the darned thing out and put it in again.... but not clever enough to snip off the leftover clip... wunerful...:) <P>Farrell wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Great new center pin design. This (below) was recovered from a 35-year old Yamaha console. One key didn't seem to be working.......</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>I'm all for improvising, but this is ridiculous!</FONT></FONT> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>Terry Farrell</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>UiB, Bergen, Norway <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <BR><A href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <BR><A href="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A> <BR>  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>