I agree again, unless the customer won't pay for the new pinblock, restringing etc. I really don't like doing those things for free. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: <antares@euronet.nl> To: <dm.porritt@verizon.net>, Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 23:34:31 +0200 Subject: Re: Ca pin block repair-broken tuning pin >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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