I remember hearing a piano tuner say years ago that on really loose
tuning pins, his father would pull out the pin, squirt in boiled
linseed oil and put the pin back in.  I presume that this would swell
the wood around the pin.  Anyone ever hear of this trick and does it
work?

Bryan Smith

 [ Many MMD articles about this topic are indexed at
 [ http://www.mmdigest.com/Archives/KWIC/L/loose.html  -- Robbie