No you are not the only one.... when I was training I did a six week stint at Bentleys Piano makers, I was putting the strain on a strung back and six pins broke off. I was not popular with the stringers :-( they do not like to put odd strings on and extracting pins. BTW this was the 70s union de-markation one man to one job, so I was not allowed to change the string myself. I have never broke one since but I have come across them and I agree the extractors are vgood on 2/0 and up but are no good for small pins. As for agrafs I have never had one go when tuning, but I have had a few failures when trying to take them out, this use to happen a lot when we Electroplated the frames so the agraafs had to come out, they would be covered in gold plate otherwise. Barrie In article <32CF687B.4D91@mail.csufresno.edu>, Larry Gardner <larryg@csufresno.edu> writes >pianotech@byu.edu wrote: >> > >> >Sy Zabrocki writes: >> >> How often do tuning pins break while tuning? Apparently not very often. It >would interesting to know how many tuners have broken one and how many have not. >> >> In 38 years I never have experienced a broken pin. This time represents about >32,000 tunings. Also, I have never seen a broken agraffe. Have I just been >lucky? >> > >Gee, am I the only one who's broken a pin, or I mean, a pin broke on me. > >Last year, on a brand new Kawai upright, I just started to give this >bass string a nudge (well, I think it was 20¢ low), and I thought the >string broke. Then I looked and the pin had broken off leaving about a >1/4" sticking out. My advice is, don't mess around, get the pin >extractor tip from pianotech with reverse threads. It worked great. > >Larry Gardner, RPT >Fresno CA > > -- Barrie Heaton | Be Environmentally Friendly URL: http://www.airtime.co.uk/forte/piano.htm | To Your Neighbour The UK PIano Page | pgp key on request | HAVE YOUR PIANO TUNED Home: www.airtime.co.uk/forte/heaton.htm |
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