I seem to have finally dumped the last of my old tattered Schaff catalogs, and the new one doesn't list them, but I think it was Schaff that used to sell a Wegman type "repair" somethingorother for that odd loose pin replacement. It involved drilling something like a 1/2" hole where the old pin was, and driving this replacement in. They have apparently been discontinued, or I'm just not seeing them in the current catalogs. I do, unfortunately still see some of the past classic ancient curses still lingering on. I've never tuned a Wegman, but the idea always intrigued me. I often wonder about why stuff like this fell aside in the relentless progress of piano evolution (the original, not the retrofit). Possibly insufficient marketing or too high an average employee alcohol intake during lunch. <G> Wish I'd ordered a couple of those supply house retrofits to archive and ponder over though. I did get a few of the beloved Cornwall & Patterson tuning pin locks before they became unavailable. Mine are permanently archived in a drawer in the shop, but I've actually seen some installed in pianos. No, they didn't exactly work, but I thought they were kind of ingenious in a baling wire and safety pin sort of way. Anyone happen to have a couple of the old Wegman retrofits lying around that they'd care to part with? Ron N
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