<< In a message dated 9/28/00 10:25:43 AM Central Daylight Time, dporritt@post.cis.smu.edu writes: << Our days have so much variety. That's what makes this business so good and bad. Yesterday I spent the morning working on a nice Steinway B here in my shop at the school. While doing that I had a nice conversation with an adjunct faculty member about his 1st place finish last week in the Leeds Piano Competition. The afternoon found me under the keyboard of an extremely dusty Cable spinet removing a hammer butt to replace the hammer shank. I also got to tune it for the first time since 1990. Lovely afternoon. dave >> >> That latter has been most of my week. Monday I worked all day regulating dampers on a Acrosonic spinet. It really needs new damper but I got them working very good with only minimal overtones ringing.Then yesterday I serviced a regular customer's Acrosonic, exactly like the one before (as you know, Acrosonic styles vary), and it had worse damper problems than the previous one. Is this coincidence, or a pattern starting? This time I sold a damper replacement job. Drad! I guess I will have to regulate the new dampers too! Dave Peake, RPT Portland Chapter Oregon City, OR www.davespianoworks.locality.com
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