Loose Tuning Pins
By Tom Steuer
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
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