Driving the Pins WAS: C/A glue etc.

[Bill Ballard]

At 9:54 AM -0600 9/1/03, Joe And Penny Goss wrote:
>With CA in my bag of tricks tapping the pins is not done. The tapping in of
>a pin causes some  pins to be untunable not because of delamination of the
>block but because the tuning hammer tip will no longer seat on the tuning
>pin with the wire arround it blocking the tip.

Single loose pins in the midst of tight ones don't occur that often. 
I tap the entire set of tuning pins, so all wires end up leaving the 
tuning pin at roughly the same height. I say roughly, because each 
pin gets struck with the same force by the hammer. That way, looser 
pins will go deeper in than tighter pins, and all end up with roughly 
the same torque.

I've never run into the situation you describe. For over thirty 
years, driving the pins has been my remedy of first resort. Driving 
the pins takes roughly the same amount of time as doping the block 
with CA. The former can be done on a vertical without having to tip 
it on its side. The latter doesn't require an extra 20 minute rough 
tuning (although most of the time, the piano having its pins driven 
also needs a 100¢ pitch raise)

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

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