Hi John, The term bending the pin a little, whilst tuning is very different than having bent pins. Flag polling the pin would be a better term. The bent pins were probably caused by an inexperienced or sloppy stringer. Bending the pin re tuning, should only be an ultra fine adjustment, less than a beat every few seconds in my book, on unisons. It's a cheater move on stubborn pianos. just my 2c worth Roger At 05:57 PM 8/6/02 -0300, you wrote: >Hi List, >I just removed the pins in a piano, in preparation for a restringing. >The majority of the old pins were bent, some were quite bad. >Is this because, a tuner was bending the pins, to fine tune? I seem to >remember someone saying they bent the pin a bit. >Regards, >John M. Ross >Windsor, Nova Scotia. >jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca Roger
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