Troy Taylor wrote that he has a Melville Clark upright with sloppy pins
and I wanted to respond.  There is a product on the market called
"Pintite" that restorers sometimes drop into the pinblock to swell the
wood.  It is a quick and easy fix, and initially it works.  But a far
superior answer is to restring the string, or even the section, with an
oversize pin, rather than possibly damaging the wood in the pinblock with
a chemical agent.

On another subject -- everyone is so concerned with age -- how old and
how young the respondents are.  Enough already.  Let's compare the size
of organs, or pianos, or is that a really rank subject?

Tom Steuer

 [ We're just having fun seeing how young this crowd is, Tom.  It's
 [ a safe bet that our instruments are much older!   :-)   -- Robbie