Customer ripped off?

Dave Swartz, RPT dms2000@PioneerPlanet.infi.net
Mon, 04 Mar 1996 00:12:55 -0500 (EST)


At 02:17 PM 3/3/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Bobby writes:

I had a situation this week involving a Whitney spinet.

Les writes:
>
>> Any attempt
>to raise the pitch (what is it, down a 3rd or more?) back to A-440, will
>surely result in numerous broken strings, given the amount of rust on the
>strings and pins

 Dave writes:

       I found that if you cut all the bass strings off this type piano, you
will greatly lower the inharmonicity.  Besides, one may compose an abstract
Bartok type piece...entitled....Piano InHarmon in E flat minor for piano and
wire cutters.

Yuk Yuk

Dave Swartz




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