Pianotech

  • 1.  Fixing a Hole

    Posted 03-07-2017 12:12
    Found this today. Ouch!  A copper plug of some kind.
    http://chernobieffpiano.com/

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    ChrisChernobieff
    Chernobieff Piano and Harpsichord Mfg.
    Lenoir City TN
    865-986-7720
    chrisppff@gmail.com
    www.facebook.com/ChernobieffPianoandHarpsichordMFG


  • 2.  RE: Fixing a Hole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 03-08-2017 00:29
    What are we looking at? I can't tell from the picture.
    Paul McCloud
    San DIego




  • 3.  RE: Fixing a Hole

    Posted 03-08-2017 09:43
    Here's a closer look at the bushing ( thanks Larry).  When it was hammered in the hole it separated two layers of the pinblock as can be seen in the first photo i posted.


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    ChrisChernobieff
    Chernobieff Piano and Harpsichord Mfg.
    Lenoir City TN
    865-986-7720
    chrisppff@gmail.com
    www.facebook.com/ChernobieffPianoandHarpsichordMFG
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  • 4.  RE: Fixing a Hole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 03-08-2017 09:30
    Hi Chris, I believe that's a bronze tuning pin bushing.  They're used to shore up a loose tuning pin in the pin block until someone like you comes along and replaces the pin block.  By the looks of things it's at ground zero.

    Is that an emery cloth bushing next to it?  Old school field repairs.  I was taught these methods in1971.

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    Larry Fisher
    Owner, Chief Grunt, Head Hosehead
    Vancouver WA
    360-256-2999
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