Someone wrote: <<If it worked, the technique is right. If it doesn't, you made a mistake. >> Would any defenders of this sentiment please raise your hands? ( And, your voices in support!) I see an awful lot of this attitude in posts on this list. Why? It is not only simple-minded, it is extremely unprofessional. I thought the whole point to being a “professional” anything, was to do that thing right, to do things the “correct” way, the “best” way. For those with your hands raised, you will love the following quick and easy repairs I once saw on a grand piano. Repair #1 - The repairman tapped all the pins without supporting the pinblock. “It worked” as a technique because the torque increased and he could now tune it. Repair #2 - (later - same guy, same piano) - The bottom lamination of the block delaminated, downwards, preventing removal of the action. He pried it off with a screwdriver! - “It worked!” The action could now come out! The pins were just high enough not to restrict the action removal. - the technique was right! Repair #3 - (even later - same guy, same piano) - The second bottom lamination, now the bottom layer, also was delaminating, and the pin torque was dropping. He drilled small holes through the plate web, around and amongst the tuning pins, put in about forty #10 machine screws, and a square nut on the bottom of each. There was clearance for the nuts because the bottom lamination was gone now. Then he ran in some white glue and partially sucked the laminations together again by tightening the screws. Then, forty whacks with a hammer and a sharp cold chisel made the bolts flush with the nuts, and the action could be removed again! When I saw the piano, the pin torque was adequate, it could be tuned. This genius repairman had saved this piano! “It worked, the technique was right!” ((((( IMPORTANT NOTE! - For those on this list who believe that all opinions are equally valid, that the opinions of morons carries the same weight as that of competent technicians, ----let me state categorically - THE ABOVE POST IS SARCASTIC! - I strongly recommend that no one ever repair a piano is such a way. )))))) Bill “the end does not always justify the means” Simon Phoenix
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