A440A@AOL.COM wrote: > > Hi all, > My brother's piano needs a tuning and some minor repair. This piano is a > solid maple, (truly!) Hallet & Davis upright, made in 1865 I think. It has > the staggered agraffes on the bridge and a flat,(by design) soundboards. I > rebuilt it right after getting out of school in 1977, and it has been played > hard since. > Who is on the list in that neck of the woods? > REgards, > Ed Foote Hi,Ed. I tuned your brother's piano today. The rebuild is holding up very nicely. Two stickers broke on me while removing the action to fix a jack flange. CA glue to the rescue. I see that others broke before me! The repair took hours(I'm too embarrased to say how many) because it took a while to find the source of the noise (center pin rubbing neighbor) then I had to figure out how to take the thing apart. Then, once some parts broke, I slowed way down to prevent further failures. Strange design. It's almost as hard to service as a drop action. -- Frank Cahill Associate Member, Piano Technicians Guild Northern Va
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