The metal tuning pin insert shims.

[Vince Mrykalo]

> Steve Haasch wrote:
>         When one encounters a piano which has had loose tuning pins and
> someone has doped the holes to swell the wood, and the applications seem to
> be loosing its effect, or if someone has oiled the tuning pins to ease the
> rust and the oil has worked its way into the pin block and made a few of
> the pins really jumpy, would an alternative and reasonable fix be to insert
> the metal inserts into the tuning pin hole and then reinsert the tuning pin
> or one of one size smaller?

If all else fails, drill out the hole to take a pinblock plug (buy
falconwood plugs or make your own), and redrill.


vince mrykalo  rpt
byu provo utah
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