Recently had one, named "Lyric", where the pins were iffy, and we didn't want to risk it. A trip to the machine shop for screw holes, larger pin holes in the webbing, and a rather major grinding of the underside of the webbing (reduced by 3/8 ths) allowed for standard 1 3/8 block installation. The flange line was good, and the rim looked like it was built to be ambi-social. Worked great. No worries. Guy Nichols, RPT At 07:38 PM 4/10/02 -0400, you wrote: >List, > >I tuned an interesting piano today, a 30's vintage tiny Wurlitzer grand. >When the customer said it had been rebuilt after a fire in the 60's, I >reached inside to see if I could feel whether the original block had been >replaced. To my astonishment, there was no block! The tuning pins look >normal from the top, but are stubby, ending just below the plate webbing. >Also, they are slotted on the bottom and each one has a thin steel wedge >driven up into the slot. I could not see any bushing of any sort between >the tuning pins and plate holes, but if there was anything there, it was >very, very thin. > >The piano actually tuned very well. The feel of the pins during tuning >was quite different and unique. Torque was high and surprisingly uniform >from pin to pin, but there was no jumpiness at all. When I exerted enough >effort to get the pin moving, it would turn slowly and smoothly, a kind of >molasses feeling. The act of settling the pin after tuning a string was >hardly needed. It worked only within the narrowest of ranges anyway. > >Does anyone out there have any experience or knowledge of this piano? It >was refinished and had some other minor work done in a large piano repair >shop in Detroit in the 60's. Did Wurlitzer actually manufacture this as a >option at one time, or is this piano experimental? I could not find a >serial number anywhere. > >Dave Foster > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. >
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