Id like a picture of the tuning pins myself... Oblong ? Not quite sure what you mean. Nice to hear from you again Danny ! Happy New Year RicB Danny Boddin wrote: > > This Broadwood has oblong threaded tuningpins which go into the plate before > they catch the pinblock. > We intend to replace them with the same size normal tuningpins which first > will get a thread of the same dimension. > Nicer looking and easier tuning. > Do you think this will work? I mean, will this piano hold his tuning > afterwards? The pinblock itself is in good condition and we prefer not to > replace it: the plate seems to be glued on it, probably difficult to remove > or not? Meaby we can put some epoxy > in the pinblockholes for better fix of the new pins? > > This 2 meter grand will get a new ciresa soundboard. Any idea what kind of > strings and best sounding scale we can use for restringing? I'm scared to > use the 'pure sound' since even with the right calculated scaling up to the > specifications from Juan Mas Cabré in some grands we restrung some strings > broke after a while and even one year later. > Thanks, > Danny Boddin > Ternat, Belgium > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Name: Imgp8186.jpg > Imgp8186.jpg Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) > Encoding: base64 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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