Yep, tuning pin bits are available and work well. I used one for years when I was rebuilding pianos. Just one caveat - don't try this with a small, cordless drill. I used a commercial 1/2" drill and it still packed a wallop. A smaller drill will kill your wrist and probably won't have enough power to do the job.For less than the price of a good tuning hammer, you can get a bit that chucks in a drill that will make quick work of unwinding the pins.
How would this work with an up right piano? Once, I saw a piano that took a fall out of the back of a moving van. Imagine an explosion in a mattress factory, lying in the street. The sound board was in a million splinters,
.... and those were the "good old days?"Pretty much the same way as in a grand piano. In an upright you would have to remove the keybed (the wooden structure that the keyboard sits on) in order
to remove the cast iron plate.
As an aside, before the middle of the 19th century, pianos had no cast iron plate to resist the string tension. Pianos imploding due to excess string tension was not an uncommon occurrence. Ouch!
Ouch. I was really nervous when we moved my C5 to its new home:How would this work with an up right piano? Once, I saw a piano that took a fall out of the back of a moving van. Imagine an explosion in a mattress factory, lying in the street. The sound board was in a million splinters,
Not for everybody!.... and those were the "good old days?"
Good thing you don't have a C7 - you would have taken out a gutter or two. That is scary.Ouch. I was really nervous when we moved my C5 to its new home:
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When they said they wanted to use that side of the balcony, I was thinking, hey it's plenty wide (about four feet). I forgot to account for the roof overhang.Good thing you don't have a C7 - you would have taken out a gutter or two. That is scary.