Greetings,
<<>On soundboards being replaced. I believe as Bill Garlick once said to me,
>"too many people are pulling out perfectly good soundboards". Dave just
>because a board is 40 years old or older? >>
The same thing goes for pinblocks. I tuned one of my rebuilds from 1980
today. It is a 1913 model O, that I restrung with 3/0 pins. It has an even
120 in/lbs of torque, tunes like a dream, and will do so for a long time to
come.
Poor repinning has given a lot of old blocks a bad name, but properly
done, these blocks can go up the sizes of pins one by one, allowing at least
two re-stringings.
Regards,
Ed Foote
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