This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Just Thinking, Perhaps the pin was bent during cooling after the heat treatment. Sort = of like cooking a weiner. <G> Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@AOL.COM=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 7:45 PM Subject: Re: Bent Tuning Pins In a message dated 8/6/02 9:40:22 PM !!!First Boot!!!, = jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca writes:=20 Hi List,=20 I just removed the pins in a piano, in preparation for a = restringing.=20 The majority of the old pins were bent, some were quite bad.=20 Is this because, a tuner was bending the pins, to fine tune? I seem = to=20 remember someone saying they bent the pin a bit.=20 Regards,=20 John M. Ross=20 It would seem to me that the tip of the hammer would break before it = could bend a tuning pin. Is there any evidence that the pins had been = driven? Maybe in the process of driving them deeper in the block, the = tuner hit them at an angle. Just a thought.=20 Wim=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/0d/da/0e/d2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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