Greetings

[Clarence Stout]

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Dear Greg and Newton:        Ditto on both surplus new and used piano repair
parts!   I have quite a goodly supply left over when I first opened my shop back
in about 1965.  My first tuning mentor gave me his supply of action parts many
of which I still have.


Clarence (Clancy) Stout RPT

Nebraska Chapter PTG

Holyoke, Colorado

Greg Torres wrote:

> Dear Newton.
>
> WELCOME BACK!  We missed ya!
> I would like to know if there is a way for those on this list to maybe get
> involved somehow, perhaps sending parts, or  ??? I have some boxes of
> hammers, flanges, etc., I would be willing to send them ???  I would also
> like to know if there is going to be another trip of this sort in the future
> and if I or others on this list can go and what would be the cost, etc.
>
> Glad you're with us again.
>
> Sincerely,
> Greg Torres
>
> Newton Hunt wrote:
>
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am back from Cuba after a two week stint of teaching and regulating.
> >
> > If you think there are some problem prone, unstable and less satifactory
> > pianos on the American market place, you should see what the Russians
> > have been making!
> >
> > My student and I worked on a MOCKBA (Moskva made in Moskow) which has a
> > renner action and hammers, but is the worst copy of a Steinway D you can
> > imagine.  The action is not set up properly, which makes regulation for
> > a fine touch difficult and the sound is much less than flexible.
> >
> > The Estonia is worse, but better.  It has a nice tone and can sound
> > rather nice, but the action is a nightmare.  It started life as a
> > Herberger-Brooks Schwander style, but the keys are a disgrace,
> > especially for a nine foot piano, and the action setup is all wrong.
> > What a pain.
> >
> > We were able to improve them substantially, but not to what I would like
> > to have them be.  Oh, well, silk purses and sow's ears.
> >
> > I have been enjoying reading the threads that evolved while I was gone
> > and I will be responding to various ones from time to time.
> >
> > I am so glad to get home where the food is predictable, the showers are
> > hot, the toilets have wooden seats and sewers work well.
> >
> > The Cubans desperately need knowledge, skills, parts, tools and
> > supplies; everything we take for granted, even this list, is not
> > available to them.  They have been cut off from most of the world for 30
> > years, and whatever pianos skills were once there have not been passed
> > on to the second and third generations, yet they are far more involved
> > with music of all kinds than we Americans.
> >
> > In all the time I was there, I saw two good pianos;  a two year old
> > Hamburg D in superior condition and next to it a 15 year old Hamburg D,
> > which needs new hammers and strings, but functioned well.
> >
> > Everything else is a disaster from corrosive humidity and termite
> > infestations.  Simple things like string replacement to minor regulation
> > are unknown there.  Even teaching instruments are in severe states of
> > deteriation.
> >
> > I am SO glad to be back home, again.
> >
> > It makes me appreciate what I have even more, including this list of
> > friends.
> >
> >         Newton



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