If you put your strings up properly they shouldn’t have suddenly begun buzzing against the levers. It was your messing with the bridge pins that wrecked your regulation. You will need to get the strings on correctly (probably you left too much winding on them, would be my guess), and then put the pins back where they were.

Are your tuning pins the through style or are they zithers? When you fix your strings, as Barbara suggested, make sure you back those pins out enough. Try to line them up with a string you haven’t changed yet. If the tuning pins are too deep, this can cause all sorts of problems, from added stress on the string to buzzing levers to messing up your regulation.

The only way I can see that you can quick fix this (until you have a chance to change the strings)is to tune the Eb flat so that when you engage the lever it will register the E natural in tune. Doesn’t help though if you have key changes throughout the song.

I certainly don’t envy you the task before you- fiddling with levers is kinda like performing oral surgery

Karen

Harper Cait,
Glad I was able to suggest something that was helpful.

I’ve been wondering why your new strings were buzzing against your sharping levers to begin with.

Dusty sells their own strings, which are, as far as I know the only strings they want you to use. It’s far more likely that the tuning pins were not backed out enough to allow for the inward motion of tightening the new strings, thus bringing the string out much closer to the lever by the time the string was pulled up enough.