On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM, <reggaepass at aol.com> wrote: > Speaking of getting bridge pins down in their holes, has anyone documented > any difference between driving them in by hand vs. pushing them in (as, I am > told, many of the larger piano manufacturers do) in terms of pin looseness > down the line. I ask because when replacing a broken string, I routinely > give the bridge pins involved a tug. Most of the bridge pins from "hand > made" pianos (in which the pins were, presumably, pounded in) come right > out, so I glue size. In the same building, I have yet to encounter any > loose bridge pins on the mass-produced pianos present (in this case, all > Yamahas). And, yes, strings do break on the Yammies as well. Have these pins been filed? I've wondered if perhaps the filing moves them around in the hole, and contributes to looseness later on. -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090216/e7a08d17/attachment.html>
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