Harpsichord

It will stain. I know... Jim Sent from my iPhone

The key to stopping the shim from pushing down into the hole is one drop of CA left to dry for a couple minutes or so. Sent from my iPhone

Yes, those supposedly tapered pins that came in Zuckermann kit instruments. They are very problematic, and tapping is not very helpful. I have an instrument that had them, and I simply drilled out the holes and put in zither pins. I have seen truly tapered ...

Perhaps I misunderstood Ed. These smooth pins are tapered for the bottom few millimeters, but not along their entire length. ------------------------------ Alan Eder, RPT Herb Alpert School of Music California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA 661.904.6483 ...

For tapered pins one typically simply taps them in a bit. Hence the T tuning "hammer" (hard surface on one or both ends of the T). If that doesn't suffice, you need to remove the pin, with the complication of keeping the coil taut and hence attached while ...