>Here's another puzzler. Why is the pin block sometimes called the "wrest >plank."? > >Sy Zabrocki--RPT The answer to this was supplied today on Pianotech by Ted_Sambell@banffcentre.ab.ca It is as follows: ================================== It is interesting to note that Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist from the 17th. century, mentioned having to go to his harpsichord maker to buy a 'rest', i.e., a 'wrest' for tuning his harpsichord. No doubt the name came from the action of 'wresting' the tuning pin in order to adjust it to tune. So this must be how the wrest plank acquired its name also, though today we are inclined to use the colloquial term 'pinblock'... ================================== Keith A. McGavern kam544@ionet.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA
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