[CAUT] unusual repair

[Keith Roberts]

I agree with # 1. If you are up to a #4 pin, the block is going to be
replaced next stringing job. I just used some CA glue on about 15 pins in
small grand at a winery. A0 to C1 was mushy and there were a few that would
let loose if they moved it. I came back from a break and they had a nice
feel to them. I like the feel better than an overly tight block.

Keith Roberts


On 2/22/07, Rick Florence <Rick.Florence at asu.edu> wrote:
>
> A few questions come to mind:
>
> 1.  Why pull a pin in an old D right before a concert when a few drops of
> CA
> glue would have done the trick?
>
> 2.  Why not splice the string?
>
> 3.  Do you not keep a set of strings in your inventory?
>
> ____________________
> Rick Florence
> Senior Piano Technician
> Arizona State University
> School of Music
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
> Willem
> Blees
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 12:33 PM
> To: CAUT
> Subject: [CAUT] unusual repair
>
> We've got a concert tonight featuring Aleck Karis. He prefered
> the "old" Steinway. One of the problems with this instrument is that
> there are several pins in octave 1 that are not very tight. Yesterday,
> low E finally gave out. So this morning I replaced it with a 4, but in
> the process, the string broke. First at the becket, but then after I
> wrestled with that for a few minutes, as I brought it up to pitch, the
> string broke at the pin. I told the professor in charge of this
> concert that there is nothing I could, and the Alexk would have to use
> the "new" D. An hour later I got a call from one of our piano
> professors, who has a D in his studio. He said "use my E". I said I
> would try, but there would be a chance that that string would break
> too. He said, what have we got to loose?
>
> So I did. I took the E off his piano, and put it on the concert hall
> piano. So far, knock on wood, it's working. Another first for me.
>
> PS: I did order another E, but it won't be here until tomorrow.
> Obviously not in time for tonight's concert, but in time for this
> weekend's concert, featuring Boris Berman, playing Mozart #2.
>
> Wim
> Willem Blees, RPT
> Piano Tuner/Technician
> School of Music
> University of Alabama
> Tuscaloosa, AL USA
> 205-348-1469
>
>
>
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