At 07:21 PM 2/1/96 -0700, you wrote: >Dick Day posted: >>I agree but I have found that tilting the piano about 400 degrees to the >>diasticuticle and then greasing the casters with almaguzam helps. >> >>Tunerdick >>Marshall MI > >Help. What are the meanings of diasticuticle and almaguzam, please? Or >are they inventions of your own? > >Keith A. McGavern, RPT Keith, I suspect that those terms share genetic material with the infamous "gezortenblatz", well known to those of use who work on antique, low-tech pianos with other pianistic oddities such as "frammenjammer" and "clapsaddle". Best, Horace ______________ Horace Greeley, RPT 14 Pyxie Lane Piano Technician & Consultant San Carlos, CA 94070-1506 The Colburn School of Performing Arts 415.592.6620 Los Angeles, CA horace@compadept.com _____________
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