[pianotech] Harpsichord Tuning Pin Torque?

[Ron Nossaman]

On 9/16/2010 5:12 PM, John Delacour wrote:

> The idea of cylindrical piano pins was not a very brilliant one either.
> I have a lot to do with Brinsmead and Kirkman pianos, both of which used
> tapered pins and I have rarely had to replace them.
>
> JD


Vose, here, had tapered pins. A good idea, I thought, whose time passed 
virtually unnoticed. But then, a thousand gallons of CA would otherwise, 
by now, have gone unsold.

Ron N