need ideas

[Greg Newell]

Do you folks think that this has much to do with those wonderful microwaved glue
joints? Call me old fashioned but I'd rather take the time with a slow curing
glue!

Greg

Mark Cramer wrote:

> How about a complicated solution? I had mentioned previously the Kawai UST-7
> (an otherwise amazing studio piano, IMHO) as being especially susceptable to
> this problem, and had several others echo the same findings. The irony is
> the UST (including 5's thru 8's) is built very well for moving in every
> other respect; superb steel frame, double wheel castors, etc.
>
> I had intended to ask Don Mannino if there was an awareness as to why the
> UST's rack so easily. I recall seeing creative back re-inforcement for
> back-post-less uprights, detailed on the PTJ reprint CD. It involved
> gusseting the back of the piano with a patterned sheet of plywood.
>
> The question remains whether the floor is the (greater) culprit, or the
> piano's cabinet?
> Has everyone re-acquainted (and re-glued) at least one old upright back to
> it's estranged cabinet sides? :>)
>
> Mark Cramer,
> Brandon University
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-caut@ptg.org [mailto:owner-caut@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
> kam544@flash.net
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:33 PM
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Subject: need ideas
>
> Dear List,
>
> I recently have discovered a problem with unlevel floors in some university
> classrooms causing the pianos to go out of tune when moved only a few
> inches from the tuning location.
>
> Other than requesting the pianos not be moved, are there any other
> corrective measures or ideas that someone has employed with any success?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Keith McGavern, RPT
> Oklahoma Baptist University
> Saint Gregory's University
> Shawnee, Oklahoma, USA

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