This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I ran into one of these, three years ago. I was pretty surprised just = as you were! =20 I don't understand why they did it that way Gary McCormick ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Clyde Hollinger=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 4:48 PM Subject: becket hole Friends,=20 It looked like I was going to finish early today (yea!! it's = Friday!!), but alas, it was not to be. :-( The rotten-sounding = little 1966 P A Starck spinet decided to break two treble strings. I = didn't trust removing the action because all the little fiber nut = grommets looked like they were waiting for an excuse to fall apart, too, = so I knotted the one string and replaced the other with the action in = the piano.=20 Well, more to the point. The tuning pins were loose so I decided to = move up to the next larger size (on the strings I was = repairing/replacing). I was surprised to find that on all three of them = the tuning pin becket holes were not drilled all the way through! I was = in no mood to do much sleuthing, but I suspect that all the treble = tuning pins were the same way.=20 So, either chalk this one up to my poor powers of observation, or else = this is a pretty rare way to go. Which is it?=20 Regards,=20 Clyde=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b2/53/d7/9a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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