I am preparing to restring a Steinway L for our School of Music over the summer. I am wondering what procedures you might recommend for reaming holes prior to installing new pins (or if you recommend reaming at all, come to think of it). I will be replacing 2-0's with 4-0's. Many thanks, Tom Seay Hi Ya' Tom, I just restrung a spinet (gag) that had 2/0's and did NOT ream. What I did do was use my gun cleaning brush to apply "Man O' War" Varnish to the holes and dumped a load of talc in the box of tuning pins (4/0). When I tried torque before all this, I got a very high reading, but after I got extremely even pinning (much better than I expected). Surprise, surprise, the piano was quite tunable and not too bad- for a spinet (gag, gag). Eric Leatha, RPT tunrboy@aol.com
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