Some years ago, there were pianos coming from Eastern Europe and Russia. I had to carry spare tuning pins and an extractor. Sometimes it was very difficult to get the stub out, so I had to drill. Not fun. Paul McCloud San DIego ----- Original Message ----- From: Floyd Gadd To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: 11/27/2010 6:08:47 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] broken tuning pin Never mind blaming the Chinese pianos. I had this happen this summer on a three year old Petrof PIII Floyd Gadd Manitoba Chapter Quote: I tuned this Chinese piano the other day and the pin twisted broke off. It was a brand new piano, called A.Grand. Lucky I got the string in tune. It is holding fine and I am deciding whether to fix it or not. I think we will be seeing more of these. Regards, Jack Houweling -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101127/acb80a86/attachment.htm>
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