I have always taken some thin translucent baking paper and cut out to match the pinblock face whilst the old bloc was still in, and traced out the holes. Then when the new one is installed tape it into place and with a small punch mark the center of each hole. There was an article about this somewhere in a past journal I seem to remember,.... something about a way of doing this from scratch with no template or diagram to go on. Anybody remember that ? Cheers RicB > > I am about to replace my first open-faced pinblock. It is a 100+ > year old 6'4" Knabe grand. My question is how best to re-locate > the tuning pin holes. I can easily imagine an assortment of > approaches that should work - paper tracings, marked-up mylar, > etc. - but I can also imagine these approaches to have some > introduced error also. Maybe the best is to do the tracing or > mylar and just correct as needed. > > But I'm also sure that many of you have been through this and have > a better feel for what works and what doesn't. The original tuning > pin array was very nicely spaced for good string lay/spacing, > etc., so I would like to maintain the original. Any ideas would be > greatly appreciated. > > Terry Farrell > > www.farrellpiano.com <http://www.farrellpiano.com> >
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