tight pins

[Richard Brekne]

You can turn out the pins, remove the becket, turn it out 5 or six turns 
and bang it in again.  Time consuming for a whole piano and doesn't 
necessarily eliminate jumping pins.  But it will loosen the grip a bit.

Cheers
RicB


    I tuned a K &c today with impossibly tight pins... Fortunately none
    broke,
    but what do you do to get some of the tightness out without wrecking pin
    block. Lots of snapping, too.   Do I just jerk them back and forth
    several
    times?  Concerns me just a bit.
    thanks
    les bartlett