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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>How about using, item #110, a tuning pin
extractor, in the Schaff catalogue page 46.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Vice grips?</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>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 30, 2004 11:40
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> removing broken tuning pin</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2 PTSIZE="10">Hi all,
<BR><BR>I've come across a piano that has a broken tuning pin(it was like that
when I got there...really...). There is nothing square left on the pin
fragment still in the plate. It is in the very corner, where strut meets
strut next to the stretcher. Hacksawing a slot may be difficult.
I'm looking for advice as to the best way to get this out.
<BR><BR>This isn't an urgent situation, since the tech that was involved in
the breakage has said he'd get it out, and get a new pin and string in, but I
have my doubts that that will occur, so I'd like to be ready with a solution
or two should I be called on to deal with this. <BR><BR>Thanks in advance,
<BR><BR>Dave Stahl <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>