Avery: APSCO used to sell 7/0 tuning pins! dp David M. Porritt dporritt@smu.edu -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Avery Todd Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 8:51 PM To: pianotech Subject: Always Something New! List, I thought after almost 30 yrs., I'd seen just about everything. :-) Today, I was working on an old Baldwin grand (# 6030, I think) and discovered it had 6/0 pins! I knew they were out there, but I've never used them and wouldn't even consider it, actually! It also sounded like it had concrete hammers and the lady who had to play on it, just hated it! I couldn't imagine why! :-) Whoever "worked" on this piano however many years ago, didn't have a clue about hammer traveling! They were going every which way! One particularly bad one I took off the rail and there was a fairly thick sandpaper shim under the flange. When I took it off and reinstalled the hammer, it was really crooked! Obviously, he'd tried to straighten up a badly glued hammer by shimming. No matter what it did to the traveling. No hammer I took off had any traveling paper there except for the above problem! I think I spent almost 3 hrs. straightening out all that mess! Amazing! :-( Sorry. Just venting a little. But at least, after finishing with it, she seemed to love it! But what a way to spend an Easter Saturday! Oh well, I can pay another bill or two now! :-) Avery _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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