I tried your email address, Donald. Couldn't get through. The following post should help you on your broken tuning pin. Keith A. McGavern kam544@ionet.net Registered Piano Technician Oklahoma Chapter 731 Piano Technicians Guild USA >Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:38:19 -0800 >From: Larry Gardner <larryg@csufresno.edu> >Subject: Re: Tuners--Broken Pins >Sender: owner-pianotech@byu.edu >To: pianotech@byu.edu >Reply-to: pianotech@byu.edu >MIME-version: 1.0 >Precedence: bulk > >...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 >
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