Ca pin block repair-broken tuning pin

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On maandag, sep 15, 2003, at 18:54 Europe/Amsterdam, Susan Kline wrote:

> At 06:26 PM 9/15/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>> And how about the world of ETD's? most of 'em come from the US and we 
>> have a hard time selling them here because people are so .....  old 
>> fashioned  !!=@#$%^&^)@!!
>
> Dag, OOR!

How-de-doody Sue,
>
> Old-fashioned --- heck, it works for me! At least with tuning.

Hey! I said "here" ok?  (; >))

I know you're one of those old goodies. I am just bone tired of tuning 
and my ETD is not only responsible for a heck of a tuning but also for 
preserving my energy AND my positive way of looking at the world. Tell 
that to an old German tuner...geeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz or a French one 
for that matter......grrrrrrrrrrrrr
zut alors!
>
> But CA glue, with and without white glue, and a few drops of vodka for 
> voicing ... I guess that's innovative, nowadays, though I think that 
> the alcohol voicing is an old technique being rediscovered.


I would have to be in America and buy American style hammers, and then 
learn 'wet voicing'.....
That too is just not done here, but that is understandable : all 
European hammers are hard and firm from the beginning and we are 
required to give them a cushion during first voicing.
>
> By the way, a customer from Denmark has an old Zimmerman upright -- 
> lots of very loose pins. I've used CA glue on almost a dozen, not much 
> on each except for two really bad ones, where I took the string off 
> the pin, turned it out about half-way, soaked it well with CA (piano 
> was tilted) and turned it back in. For one I took the pin completely 
> out and swabbed the hole with CA, then soaked the pin with it, and 
> turned it back in. That pin was a little bit jumpy, while the others 
> were about right. Most of the rest only got a few drops. I don't have 
> to constantly go back and retune bad notes anymore.

I believe it immediately! I think most of them old pianas here either 
end up on the garbage pile or get the royal re-pinning 
treatment...maybe more so here than there? I have absolutely not one 
customer with loose tuning pins and the last one with a totally rotten 
pin block bought a gorgeous old Bechstein after I told them that "this 
is it".....

I always thought that Americans had more money to spend??? (the land of 
milk and honey?)

vrie groe

OOR