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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800000 size=2>Comments =
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#800000 size=2>Terry =
Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message ----- </FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:JIMRPT@aol.com"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>JIMRPT@aol.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial =
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> << If you turn them and the =
next player
sits down and feels the excessive <BR>> friction immediately, and a =
year
later feels the excessive play in the key, it <BR>> will be you that =
is
labeled the perpetrator of this hack repair job. >><BR>> =
<BR>> et
al;<BR>> Not picking on Terry here but his comments seem to =
summarize
all the <BR>> negative comments vis a vis 'turning front rail =
pins'.<BR>>
<BR>> Anybody out there got a 'good' technical reason for =
not
turning pins? If <BR>> there is a 'good' technical reason for not =
turning
pins.....why aren't frontrail <BR>> pins round rather than
ovoid?</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><BR><FONT color=#800000>Not having invented them, I don't know =
what the
intended purpose was, but the effect is that the oval pin presents an =
arc
surface to the bushing of a much larger pin (couple inches in =
diameter?) -
thus resulting in more contact surface and less wear.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV> <BR>> Can turning front rail pins be over =
done?....of course
it can...just like <BR>> anything else we do and there are those who =
over do
everything and wonder why <BR>> they have problems.......<BR>> =
<BR>>
Turning front rail pins, within judicial limits, is just as viable =
an
<BR>> adjustment as say tweaking a back check or a damper or tilting =
a
balance rail pin, <BR>> etc., etc.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>IMHO, not the same. A back check or a damper =
has a wire
because positioning <EM>needs</EM> to be adjusted upon =
installation.
That wire is meant to be bent to make things work properly. With =
a properly
fit set of key bushings and a good mortise the front rail pins =
do not
need to turned to adjust bushing play/friction (the bushings should =
be
sized in some manner, preferably by =
ironing).</FONT><BR> <BR>>
If our only 'competent' answer to loose front rail bushing is to =
replace
<BR>> them then we need to rethink our definition of =
'competency'.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Agreed. Turning the pins is a viable =
alternative as a
stop-gap technique on lesser pianos - or as Conrad H. indicated, on a =
good piano
where down time is not tolerable and the bushings are scheduled for =
replacement
in a month or two. But the original post was about a 20-year-old 7-foot =
Baldwin
grand - maybe not piano utopia, but certainly potentially a real =
piano -
and I was simply stating what I would say to owner.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>And thanks for your view! </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800000>Stay warm Jim - the forcast is for mid-30s =
the next few
nights - I wonder if others around the country have it so rough & =
tough?
It's going to be so cold that I might have to put on a sweat shirt =
or
something when I go bike riding Saturday morning....... no tank-top in
<EM>THAT</EM> kind of horrific weather!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>> Just my view.<BR>> Jim Bryant
(FL)</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>