Terry, Laura Olsen is the Institute Director or Reno this year. We try to keep an eye on all of the great ideas that flit across the list and we'll certainly take it under consideration. Are you going to attend if we run this? <grin> Allan Allan L. Gilreath, RPT Assistant Director - TEAM20001 July 11-15, 2001 - Reno, NV agilreath@mindspring.com http://www.ptg.org/conv.htm Director: Laura Olsen, RPT Assistant Directors: Allan Gilreath, RPT - Gary Neie, RPT - Dale Probst, RPT -----Original Message----- From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Farrell Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 8:33 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano > "Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the > ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our > superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of > string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them > into." Now that is an interesting thought. Give 'em maybe four to eight hours - anything goes - and see what they can do. I'll bet a GREAT EDUCATIONAL DIVIDEND would result. Are you reading this Dale Probst??? Who is running the show in Reno this year??? Are you reading this??? Is this an idea or what? Anything to increase the tolerability of some of these offensive little critters. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@mediaone.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 7:55 AM Subject: Re: Jasper American Piano > >In a message dated 11/21/00 10:38:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, > >mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: > > > >>Anyone ever hear of a Jasper American Piano? I tuned a 42" console today > >>that was reported to be about 5 years old. It had the name of a local small > >>time piano dealer bolted/nailed/screwed/glued to the plate and to the > >>fallboard. > > > >The Parent corporation of Kimball is Jasper American Inc. This name was used > >to provide "exclusive" dealerships to more than one dealer in a given area. > > > >Its a Kimball. > > > > In other words, Jaspers were the extraordinarily low ball "loss > leader" units that dealers could have their own name plates on -- and > of course these units invariably had "zero prep" (at least in my > slight experience with them). > Instead of the high flight tune-offs between Coleman & Smith, the > ultimate PTG challenge might have been having a couple of our > superstars each uncrate one of those puppies, and after a frenzy of > string seating and hammer needling, see what they could turn them > into. With a new set of bass strings ( I don't know whether a > rescaling would improve the situation, but the quality of the sets > were often very poor) -- perhaps replace the "fake buckskin" with > real buckskin, etc. one might have a spinet or console you wouldn't > mind retuning annually (well, *maybe*). > Just a thought, > Patrick > >
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