Tuners--Broken Pins <"Re: Tuners--Broken Pins"@amenti.rutgers.edu> (Jan 5, 7:39pm)

Newton Hunt nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu
Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:16:22 -0500


Warren Fisher wrote that the supply houses have a punch for driving broken
tuning pins out of the block from the underside.  I have been going through
catalogs for 35 years now and do not remember seeing such a tool.

When I was teaching Piano Technology in the sixties, full time, a student who
was restringing a grand came to me somewhat upset and said he a driven a tuning
pin into the block wrong end to, and wondered how we could get it out.  After
thinking about what we had fro tools I used a punch of some kind to drive the
pin back out from the underside of the block.

I had only known there was a tool available I could have saved myself and the
students a bit of agrivation.

	Newton
	nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu




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