[CAUT] Wurlitzer Iron Pinblock - Anyone ever restring one of these things?

[Fred Sturm]

HI Kendall,
	Does your piano by any chance have a patent number on it for the  
stringing method? I'd be curious to search it.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu



On Sep 13, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Kendall Ross Bean wrote:

> I think there might also be some confusion here because Wurlitzer  
> apparently used two different configurations for these iron  
> pinblocks. The one I am working on uses a machine screw with a  
> relatively fine thread to hold the tuning pin in from the back (or  
> underside on a grand), but you brought up a good point: there was  
> also a design that used wedges, and a tuning pin that was split at  
> the bottom to accept the wedge, which wedge could then be pounded in  
> further to tighten the pin (which design I have also seen in my  
> travels, but unfortunately don't have a picture of.)

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