At 5:37 PM -0800 1/25/02, larudee@pacbell.net wrote: >All the more justification for oversize pins that are oversize only >up to the coils >(4 mm. below the becket) and original size (or smaller) the rest of >the way up. I was at a colleague/customer's shop the other day browsing through his latest stock of rag tag and bobtail pianos and he drew my attention to an old German overstrung he was selling after a quick lick and a promise. It looked as though the pins went into a bush in the string plate, but he told me that what looked like the bushing was in fact the pin itself. The length of pin going into the plate and the wrest-plank was threaded and about 9 mm. in diameter but the protruding length was just like a normal pin. He said it tuned fine. I'd never heard of the maker and never come across such a design before. Apart from this feature, the piano was nothing special. JD
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