>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 Could be either the stringer, or a tuner. Locally, I find visibly bent tuning pins (lots of them) in pianos of different make with the name of one particular tuner inside. I don't know what this guy does, but he actually, sometimes severely, bends tuning pins just in the tuning process. Springing, or flagpoling a pin a little to find the string equilibrium point is normal. Bending the pin past it's plastic deformation limit is severely abnormal. Ron N
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