On zondag, sep 14, 2003, at 23:14 Europe/Amsterdam, David M. Porritt wrote: > I agree with you......kind of. When I find loose tuning pins the > possibility of the block's being split enter's my brain. I know if > there are several loose pins in a line it is most likely split. If > you drive larger pins in, you just spread that crack and make the > neighboring pins even looser. So.... if there is even that > possibility, I'd rather just CA it. "First, do no harm!" > > dave > > But I did not even mean blocks being split. I am of the opinion that when 1 or more tuning pins are not tunable anymore, that it is high time to re-pin and re-string the whole instrument. If you then happen to find serious cracks, so much the better that you took the trouble to take off the strings and remove the frame. It is the difference between giving somebody an aspirin or a by-pass. (I'll take the aspirin btw) antares the Netherlands www.concertpianoservice.nl www.grandpiano.nl
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