Hello guys and gals, I had a refinisher do this to one of my customers. I first met the lady when an insurance company called me to evaluate some water damage. I told the woman about a refinisher that one of my other customer expressed accolades over but emphasized I knew nothing about them. Well, the piano came back with the strings sprayed. The customer insisted I talk to the refinisher over the phone and he said "what was I supposed to do, leave them dirty?" As if spraying them actually made them clean. My ex-customers viewpoint was that it was my fault for recommending this guy to refinish her piano. I reiterated that I did not recommend them but rather just past along information from one of my other customers. I must have said that a dozen times before she even sent it out in the first place. Some people just hear what they want to hear, I guess. Greg Newell Michael Jorgensen wrote: > Hello Andrew, > In our area, about twenty years ago, a refinisher lacquered the bass > strings on an S&S grand. The old strings looked nice but the tone was totally > dead. > Just a thought, > -Mike Jorgensen > > ANRPiano@AOL.COM wrote: > > > In a message dated 5/23/00 8:06:45 AM Central Daylight Time, > > RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes: > > > > << Is the deadness limited to the bass, or all wound strings? Are low tenor > > plain wire unisons dead too (weeding out bad bass strings)? Even a really > > bad string scale will make noise, so I'd assume it's not a scaling problem. > > By the way, "dead" covers a lot of subjective territory here. Maybe you > > could define "dead". Is the sound muffled, with little sustain, muffled, > > with long sustain, not particularly muffled, with short sustain, ??? > > > > Ron N >> > > Ron > > > > It is worse in the tenor, esp. next to the lively plain strings. The notes > > in the tenor are soft with a short sustain. The bass is somewhat better in > > sustain but who ever rewhatevered the piano put in balloons for hammers so > > that maybe some of the basses problem. > > > > Andrew Remillard
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